Conjoint and dissociable effects of syntactic and semantic context

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 807-828

  O'Seaghdha, Padraig G ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0031178795     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.23.4.807     Document Type: Article

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