Morphological influences on the recognition of monosyllabic monomorphemic words

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 290-313

  Baayen, R H ^a   Feldman, L B ^b   Schreuder, R ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Lexical connectivity; Lexical processing; Mental lexicon; Morphology; Regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745818549     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2006.03.008     Document Type: Article

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