A werd is not quite a word: On the role of sublexical phonological information in visual lexical decision

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 513-552

  Martensen, Heike ^a   Dijkstra, Ton ^b   Maris, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NETHERLANDS; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 23744479808     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960444000043     Document Type: Article

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