Cortex
Volume 46, Issue 10 , Pages 1259-1271 , November 2010

Variability in the word-reading performance of dyslexic readers: Effects of letter length, phoneme length and digraph presence

  • Eva Marinus

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW 2109 Sydney, Australia.
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  • Peter F. de Jong

Received 28 September 2008 ,Revised 27 March 2009 ,Accepted 18 May 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2010.06.005

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