Relation availability was not confounded with familiarity or plausibility in Gagná and Shoben (1997): Comment on wisniewski and murphy (2005)

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1431-1437

  Gagné, Christina L ^a   Spalding, Thomas L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Combination familiarity; Combined concept; Conceptual combination; External relations; Interpretation; Lexical entries; Lexical relation frequency; Modifier noun phrase; Noun noun phrase; Plausibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750725443     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.32.6.1431     Document Type: Review

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