Linguistic knowledge and language performance in English article variant preference

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 613-662

  Raymond, William D ^a   Fisher, Julia A ^a   Healy, Alice F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0036969766     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960143000380     Document Type: Review

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