Partial knowledge of word meanings: Thematic and taxonomic representations

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 137-164

  Whitmore, Jeannette M ^a   Shore, Wendelyn J ^b   Smith, Peg Hull ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Partial knowledge; Semantic representation; Word meanings

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; RANDOMIZATION; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 3142516475     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JOPR.0000017224.21951.0e     Document Type: Article

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