Investigating the Asymmetrical Roles of Syllabic and Phonemic Awareness in Akshara Processing

Journal of Learning Disabilities

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 499-506

  Nakamura, Pooja R ^a   Joshi, R Malatesha ^b   Ji, Xuejun Ryan ^b  

^a AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

foreign language; orthography

Indexed keywords

ANDHRA PRADESH; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KARNATAKA; LANGUAGE; LITERACY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; STUDENT; VOCABULARY; CHILD; INDIA; MULTILINGUALISM; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING;

CHILD; HUMANS; INDIA; MULTILINGUALISM; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 85041894950     PISSN: 00222194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022219417718201     Document Type: Article

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