Meaning resolution processes for words: A parallel independent model

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 49-82

  Twilley, Leslie C ^a   Dixon, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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ARTICLE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SEMANTICS;

HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0034155173     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03210725     Document Type: Article

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