Recognition of inflected words in a morphologically limited language: Frequency effects in monolinguals and bilinguals

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 121-146

  Lehtonen, Minna ^a   Niska, Helge ^b   Wande, Erling ^b   Niemi, Jussi ^c   Laine, Matti ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Inflected nouns; Language structure; Morphological processing; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; RECOGNITION; STATISTICS; SWEDEN;

ADULT; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SWEDEN; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33646482601     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-005-9008-1     Document Type: Article

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