On knowing a word

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue , 1999, Pages 1-19

  Miller, George A ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Lexical semantics; Polysemy; Sense identification; WordNet

Indexed keywords

EID: 22644450731     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.50.1.1     Document Type: Article

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