What "Mice Trap" tells us about the mental lexicon

Brain and Language

Volumn 90, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 453-464

  Buck Gengler, Carolyn J ^a   Menn, Lise ^a   Healy, Alice F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Inflectional morphology; Innateness; Irregular noun plurals; Level ordering; Noun noun compounds

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; SPEECH; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY;

EID: 2542460091     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2003.12.001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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