Akshara-phonology mappings: The common yet uncommon case of the consonant cluster

Writing Systems Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 105-119

  Nag, Sonali ^a,b  

^a Promise Foundation   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Akshara; Kannada; Orthographic learning; Phonology; Spelling; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894557086     PISSN: 17586801     EISSN: 1758681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2013.855621     Document Type: Article

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