Combining contextual and morphemic cues is beneficial during incidental vocabulary acquisition: Semantic transparency in novel compound word processing

Reading Research Quarterly

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 172-190

  Brusnighan, Stephen M ^a   Folk, Jocelyn R ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84862171241     PISSN: 00340553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/RRQ.015     Document Type: Article

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