Evidence for frequency-based constituents in the mental lexicon: Collocations involving the word of

Brain and Language

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 227-236

  Sosa, Anna Vogel ^a,b   MacFarlane, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Chunking; Collocational frequency; Frequency effects; Frequent phrases; Function words; Holistic storage; Lexical access; Lexical representation; Usage based; Word monitoring

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL FUNCTION; MONITORING; REACTION TIME; SPEECH;

COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; REACTION TIME; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0036034419     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(02)00032-9     Document Type: Article

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