Word regularity affects orthographic learning

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 856-864

  Wang, Hua Chen ^a   Castles, Anne ^a   Nickels, Lyndsey ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Orthographic learning; Orthography; Self teaching hypothesis; Word recognition; Word regularity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; READING; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

CHILD; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; PHONETICS; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84861302301     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2012.672996     Document Type: Article

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