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Operating Principles in Learning to Read

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2017

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Ludo Verhoeven  and
Charles Perfetti
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Ludo Verhoeven  and
Charles Perfetti
Ludo Verhoeven
Affiliation:
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Charles Perfetti
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh
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Learning to Read across Languages and Writing Systems , pp. xiv
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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