An examination of word frequency and neighborhood density in the development of spoken-word recognition

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 47-56

  Metsala, Jamie L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031031235     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03197284     Document Type: Article

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