Alphabetism and the science of reading: From the perspective of the akshara languages

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Nag, Sonali ^a,b  

^a The Promise Foundation   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

akshara; alphasyllabary; cross linguistic; hindi; orthographic processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906344746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00866     Document Type: Note

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