On the use of lexical stress in reading Spanish

Reading and Writing

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 645-660

  Gutiérrez Palma, Nicolás ^a   Palma Reyes, Alfonso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Lexical access; Lexical stress; Orthography; Reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 46449085765     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-007-9082-x     Document Type: Article

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