Linking the shapes of alphabet letters to their sounds: The case of Hebrew

Reading and Writing

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 569-585

  Treiman, Rebecca ^a   Levin, Iris ^b   Kessler, Brett ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alphabet; Hebrew; Letter names; Letter sounds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856101485     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-010-9286-3     Document Type: Article

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