The language of expository discourse across adolescence

Expository Discourse in Children, Adolescents, and Adults: Development and Disorders

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 99-122

  Berman, Ruth A ^a   Nir, Bracha ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203848821     Document Type: Chapter

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