Conditional root uniqueness points: Psychological validity and perceptual consequences

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 39-57

  Wurm, Lee H ^a   Ross, Shannon E ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory naming; Lexical decision; Morphology language; Semantic transparency; Speech perception; Uniqueness point; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035743473     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.2000.2758     Document Type: Article

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