Carving up word meaning: Portioning and grinding

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 277-291

  Frisson, Steven ^a,b   Frazier, Lyn ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Count nouns; Eye movements; Grinding; Mass nouns; Polysemy; Portioning; Semantic commitment

Indexed keywords

EID: 20744453699     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2005.03.004     Document Type: Article

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