What causes the effect of age of acquisition in lexical processing?

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 652-660

  Menenti, Laura ^a,b   Burani, Cristina ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; COGNITION; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 34247370555     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210601100126     Document Type: Article

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