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Somali immigrant youths and the power of print literacy 索马里移民青年和印刷识字的力量

Writing Systems Research Pub Date : 2015-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2014.896771

Martha Bigelow, K. King

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引用次数: 21

Google doodles: Evidence of how graphemes' colour, shape, size and position can interact to make writing multidimensional 谷歌涂鸦:文字素的颜色、形状、大小和位置如何相互作用，使书写变得多维的证据

Writing Systems Research Pub Date : 2015-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2014.912578

Des Ryan

引用次数: 2

A new writing system? Developing orthographies for writing Arabic dialects in electronic media 一种新的书写系统?发展在电子媒体中书写阿拉伯方言的正字法

Writing Systems Research Pub Date : 2014-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2013.868334

Duaa Abu Elhija

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引用次数: 12

Power of language ideologies: Challenging the notion of foreign loanwords in Japanese-as-a-foreign-language classroom 语言意识形态的力量:挑战日语作为外语课堂的外来词观念

Writing Systems Research Pub Date : 2014-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2013.869190

N. Doerr, Y. Kumagai

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引用次数: 2

Understanding Chinese children's complex writing: Global ratings and lower-level mechanical errors 理解中国儿童的复杂写作:整体评分和低级机械错误

Writing Systems Research Pub Date : 2014-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2013.873707

X. Tong, Jianhong Mo, H. Shu, Yuping Zhang, Shingfong Chan, C. McBride-Chang

引用次数: 2

Beginner learners' progress in decoding L2 French: Transfer effects in typologically similar L1-L2 writing systems 初级学习者解码第二语言法语的进展:类型学相似的L1-L2写作系统的迁移效应

Writing Systems Research Pub Date : 2014-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2013.838536

Robert Woore

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引用次数: 3

Varieties of developmental dyslexia in Greek children 希腊儿童发育性阅读障碍的种类

Writing Systems Research Pub Date : 2014-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2014.893862

Georgia Z. Niolaki, Aris Terzopoulos, J. Masterson

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引用次数: 14

Biliteracy acquisition in Kannada and English: A developmental study 卡纳达语和英语的双语习得:一个发展性研究

Writing Systems Research Pub Date : 2014-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2013.855620

P. Nakamura, K. Koda, R. Joshi

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引用次数: 23

Devanagari's descendants in North and South India, Indonesia and the Philippines Devanagari的后裔分布在印度北部和南部，印度尼西亚和菲律宾

Writing Systems Research Pub Date : 2014-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2013.857288

Christopher R. Miller

引用次数: 10

Brāhmī-derived orthographies are typologically Āksharik but functionally predominantly alphabetic Brāhmī-derived正字法是类型学上的Āksharik，但功能上主要是字母

Writing Systems Research Pub Date : 2014-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2013.855618

Anurag Rimzhim, L. Katz, C. Fowler

引用次数: 24