A developmental investigation of word length effects in reading using a new on-line word identification paradigm

Reading and Writing

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 411-431

  Bijeljac Babic, Ranka ^a   Millogo, Victor ^a   Farioli, Fernand ^b,c   Grainger, Jonathan ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Luminance increment paradigm; Reading development; Word length effect; Word naming; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042747492     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:READ.0000032664.20755.af     Document Type: Article

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