A semantic analysis of grammatical class impairments: Semantic representations of object nouns, action nouns and action verbs

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 15, Issue 3-5, 2002, Pages 317-351

  Vinson, David P ^a   Vigliocco, Gabriella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anomia; Computational simulation; Noun; Semantics; Verb; Word class

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PHONETICS; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH DISORDER; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0036590245     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0911-6044(01)00037-9     Document Type: Short Survey

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