The mental representation of semitic words

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 609-648

  Prunet, Jean François ^a   Béland, Renée ^b   Idrissi, Ali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Metathesis; Morphology; Roots; Semitic; Templates

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002684181     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/002438900554497     Document Type: Article

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