Evidence for mental models: How do prior knowledge, syntactic complexity, and reading topic affect inference generation in a recall task for nonnative readers of Spanish?

Modern Language Journal

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 176-193

  Barry, Sue ^a   Lazarte, Alejandro A ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001531834     PISSN: 00267902     EISSN: 15404781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4781.1998.tb01191.x     Document Type: Article

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