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Publication details [#33047]

Saiegh-Haddad, Elinor. 2003. Linguistic distance and initial reading acquisition: The case of Arabic diglossia. Applied Psycholinguistics 24 (3) : 431–451.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

diglossia | reading, L1-acquisition of

Language as a subject

Arabic

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0142-7164

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study investigates phonemic awareness and pseudoword decoding in kindergarten and first grade native Arabic children. The results support the role of linguistic distance in basic reading acquisition processes in a diglossic context.