The nature of the syllabic neighbourhood effect in French

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 372-393

  Mathey, Stéphanie ^a   Zagar, Daniel ^b   Doignon, Nadège ^b   Seigneuric, Alix ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Orthographic redundancy; Syllabic neighbourhood; Syllable; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751172352     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2006.02.003     Document Type: Article

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