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2 - Learning to Read Chinese

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2017

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Xi Chen  and
Adrian Pasquarella
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Ludo Verhoeven  and
Charles Perfetti
Ludo Verhoeven
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Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
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University of Pittsburgh
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Learning to Read across Languages and Writing Systems , pp. 1 - 30
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Print publication year: 2017

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