Reading development in an orthographically regular language: Effects of length, frequency, lexicality and global processing ability

Reading and Writing

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1053-1079

  Zoccolotti, Pierluigi ^a,b   de Luca, Maria ^b   Di Filippo, Gloria ^a   Judica, Anna ^b   Martelli, Marialuisa ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Frequency effect; Length effect; Lexicality effect; Rate and amount model; Reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349496596     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-008-9144-8     Document Type: Article

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