Does reading in an alphasyllabary affect phonemic awareness? Inherent schwa effects in Marathi-English bilinguals

Writing Systems Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 73-93

  Bhide, Adeetee ^a   Gadgil, Soniya ^a   Zelinsky, Courtney M ^a   Perfetti, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Alphasyllabary; Bilingual; Devanagari; Inherent vowel; Phonemic awareness; Schwa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894538218     PISSN: 17586801     EISSN: 1758681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2013.855619     Document Type: Article

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