Child and Symbol Factors in Learning to Read a Visually Complex Writing System

Scientific Studies of Reading

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 309-324

  Nag, Sonali ^a   Snowling, Margaret ^b   Quinlan, Philip ^a   Hulme, Charles ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84904498764     PISSN: 10888438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10888438.2014.892489     Document Type: Article

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