American Sign Language syntactic and narrative comprehension in skilled and less skilled readers: Bilingual and bimodal evidence for the linguistic basis of reading

Applied Psycholinguistics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 367-388

  Chamberlain, Charlene ^a,c   Mayberry, Rachel I ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (Canada)

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EID: 44949164510     PISSN: 01427164     EISSN: 14691817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S014271640808017X     Document Type: Article

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