The word frequency effect in picture naming: Contrasting two hypotheses using homonym pictures

Brain and Language

Volumn 90, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 160-169

  Shatzman, Keren B ^a   Schiller, Niels O ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Homonyms; Lemma lexeme distinction; Lexical access; Phonological encoding; Speech production

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; LATENT PERIOD; NETHERLANDS; SIMULATION; SPEECH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WORD RECOGNITION;

HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 2542463939     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00429-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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