Disentangling Context Availability and Concreteness in Lexical Decision and Word Translation

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 41-63

  Van Hell, Janet G ^a   De Groot, Annette M B ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

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EID: 0032327463     PISSN: 02724987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713755752     Document Type: Article

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