Associations to unfamiliar words: Learning the meanings of new words

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 203-226

  Chaffin, Roger ^a  

^a The College of New Jersey   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; NOMENCLATURE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031001344     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03201113     Document Type: Article

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