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The effect of word familiarity on actual and perceived text difficulty

There is little evidence that readability formula outcomes relate to text understanding. The potential cause may lie in their strong reliance on word and sentence length. We evaluated word familiarity rather than word length as a stand-in for word difficulty. Word familiarity represents how well kno...

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Main Authors: Leroy, Gondy, Kauchak, David
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3957403/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24100710
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002172
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