The role of sentence context in accessing partial knowledge of word meanings

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 145-163

  Shore, Wendelyn J ^a   Kempe, Vera ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; COGNITION; HUMANS; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0033089923     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023258224980     Document Type: Article

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