Prosody of syntactically complex sentences in the oral reading of young children

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 839-843

  Miller, Justin ^a   Schwanenflugel, Paula J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Comprehension; Fluency; Oral reading; Prosody; Punctuation; Syntactically complex text

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750997023     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0663.98.4.839     Document Type: Article

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