Reading Finnish Compound Words: Eye Fixations Are Affected by Component Morphemes

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1612-1627

  Hyönä, Jukka ^b   Pollatsek, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EYE FIXATION; FINLAND; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISION;

FINLAND; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; READING; SACCADES; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0032253017     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.24.6.1612     Document Type: Article

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