Orthographic influences on division of labor in learning to read Chinese and English: Insights from computational modeling

Bilingualism

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 354-366

  Yang, Jianfeng ^a   Shu, Hua ^b   McCandliss, Bruce D ^c   Zevin, Jason D ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

computational modeling; dyslexia; reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874877179     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728912000296     Document Type: Article

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