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The Psychology of Literacy

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The psychology of literacy. By SylviaScribner and MichaelCole. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981. Pp. xiii, 335. $25.00.

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John Victor Singler
John Victor Singler*
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Language , Volume 59 , Issue 4 , December 1983, pp. 893 - 901
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Copyright © 1983 by Linguistic Society of America

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