Automaticity and inference generation during reading comprehension

Reading and Writing Quarterly

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 165-181

  Thurlow, Richard ^a   Van Den Broek, Paul ^b  

^a WIDENER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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EID: 85008826213     PISSN: 10573569     EISSN: 15210693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1057356970130205     Document Type: Article

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