Expression of syntactic complexity in sentence comprehension: A comparison between dyslexic and regular readers

Reading and Writing

Volumn 17, Issue 7-8, 2004, Pages 801-822

  Leikin, Mark ^a   Assayag Bouskila, Orit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dyslexia; Hebrew; Sentence comprehension Syntactic Complexity

Indexed keywords

EID: 12744253286     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-004-2661-1     Document Type: Article

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