Linguistic complexity in school-age text production: Expository versus mathematical discourse

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 123-154

  Ravid, Dorit ^a   Dromi, Esther ^a   Kotler, Pazit ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 84918921523     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203848821     Document Type: Chapter

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