External evidence and the Semitic root

Morphology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 41-67

  Prunet, Jean François ^a,b  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Abstractness; Aphasia; Arabic; Consonantal root; Ethiopian; External evidence; Hebrew; Internal evidence; Metathesis; Morphology; Neurolinguistics; Priming; Psycholinguistics; Semitic; Syllabic root

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749528917     PISSN: 18715621     EISSN: 18715656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11525-006-0003-5     Document Type: Review

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