The length of a complex word modifies the role of morphological structure: Evidence from eye movements when short and long finnish compounds

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 615-634

  Bertram, Raymond ^a   Hyönä, Jukka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Compound words; Eye movements; Finnish; Morphological processing; Word length

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344080575     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-596X(02)00539-9     Document Type: Review

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