Grammatical feature selection in noun phrase production: Evidence from German and Dutch

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 169-194

  Schiller, Niels O ^a,b   Caramazza, Alfonso ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gender congruency; Grammatical feature selection; Lexical access; Speech production

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037265114     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-596X(02)00508-9     Document Type: Article

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