The role of interword spaces in the processing of English compound words

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 20, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 291-316

  Juhasz, Barbara J ^a   Inhoff, Albrecht W ^b   Rayner, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 14644406814     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960444000133     Document Type: Article

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