Less skilled comprehenders’ erps show sluggish word-to-text integration processes

Written Language and Literacy

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 157-181

  Yang, Chin Lung ^a   Perfetti, Charles A ^a   Schmalhofer, Franz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

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EID: 84989402028     PISSN: 13876732     EISSN: 15706001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/wll.8.2.10yan     Document Type: Article

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