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[Studies in Written Language and Literacy 15] 2017
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Learning to read morphologically complex words

 | University of Connecticut
Published online: 14 August 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/swll.15.11car
Article outline
  • Setting the stage: Young students’ morphological knowledge
  • Contribution of morphological knowledge to general word reading
  • Morphemic processing in theories of early word reading
  • Do morphemes serve as units in children’s word reading?
  • Studies of polymorphemic word reading
  • What have we learned? And what next?
  • References
  • Appendix
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