Part-of-speech persistence: The influence of part-of-speech information on lexical processes

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 472-489

  Melinger, Alissa ^a   Koenig, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Grammatical class; Homographs; Lexical processing; Mental lexicon; Part of speech; Syntactic priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947504916     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2006.12.001     Document Type: Article

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