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Eye movements in developing readers: A comparison of silent and oral sentence reading

Christian VorstiusUniversity of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Ralph RadachUniversity of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Christopher J. LoniganFlorida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
Pages 458-485 | Received 24 Sep 2013, Accepted 07 Jan 2014, Published online: 27 Feb 2014

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