Morphological awareness in Chinese: Unique associations of homophone awareness and lexical compounding to word reading and vocabulary knowledge in Chinese children

Applied Psycholinguistics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 755-775

  Liu, Phil D ^a   McBride Chang, Catherine ^b   Wong, Terry T Y ^c   Shu, Hua ^d   Wong, Anita M Y ^c  

^a THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84879595819     PISSN: 01427164     EISSN: 14691817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S014271641200001X     Document Type: Article

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