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Publication details [#31302]

Goswami, Usha and Heinz Wimmer. 1994. The influence of orthographic consistency on reading development: word recognition in English and German children. Cognition 51 (1) : 91–103.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | orthography | reading | word recognition

Language as a subject

English | German

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0010-0277 0021-9924

Journal WWW

www.journals.elsevier.com/cognition

Annotation

As the results of this study point to the adoption of different strategies for word recognition in German and English orthographies, a model of reading development is proposed that takes account of orthographic consistency.