The Role of Vocabulary in the Context of the Simple View of Reading

Reading and Writing Quarterly

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 168-202

  Protopapas, Athanassios ^a   Mouzaki, Angeliki ^b   Sideridis, Georgios D ^b   Kotsolakou, Areti ^c   Simos, Panagiotis G ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

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EID: 84874624888     PISSN: 10573569     EISSN: 15210693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10573569.2013.758569     Document Type: Article

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