Counterintuitive cross-linguistic differences: More morphological computation in English than in Finnish

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 83-106

  Vannest, Jennifer ^a,b   Bertram, Raymond ^c   Järvikivi, Juhani ^d   Niemi, Jussi ^d  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cross linguistic differences; Lexical access; Morphology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME;

COMPUTERS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0036510797     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014934915952     Document Type: Article

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