Word length and lexical activation: Longer is better

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1120-1135

  Pitt, Mark A ^a   Samuel, Arthur G ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lexical activation; Phoneme identification; Reaction time; Spoken word recognition; Word length

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

COGNITION; HUMANS; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SIZE PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33749443037     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.32.5.1120     Document Type: Article

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