The role of meaning in past-tense inflection: Evidence from polysemy and denominal derivation

Cognition

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 150-162

  Bandi Rao, Shoba ^a   Murphy, Gregory L ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Morphology; Past tense; Polysemy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 34247254857     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.05.012     Document Type: Article

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