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Publication details [#49995]

Bialystok, Ellen and Gigi Luk. 2007. The universality of symbolic representation for reading in Asian and alphabetic languages. Bilingualism 10 (2) : 121–129.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | cognition | reading | symbol | writing

Language as a subject

Cantonese | English, Canadian

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study explores to what extent a cognitive prerequisite for reading, the comprehension of print's symbolic function, is common to children who learn to read in the different systems of alphabetic (e.g. Canadian English) and Asian (e.g. Cantonese) languages.