Journal article
Child and Symbol Factors in Learning to Read a Visually Complex Writing System
- Abstract:
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In Kannada, visual features are arranged in blocks called akshara, making this a visually more complex writing system than typical alphabetic orthographies. Akshara knowledge was assessed concurrently and 8 months later in 113 children in the first years of reading instruction (aged 4-7 years). Mixed effects logistic regression models showed that both symbol-level (visual complexity, phonological complexity, frequency) and child-level (phoneme awareness, vocabulary, rapid automatized naming) ...
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- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Journal:
- Scientific Studies of Reading
- Volume:
- 18
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 309-324
- Publication date:
- 2014-01-01
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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1088-8438
- Source identifiers:
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478869
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- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:478869
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- pubs:478869
- Deposit date:
- 2014-08-16
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- 2014
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