Rebounding activation caused by lexical homophony in the processing of Japanese two-kanji compound words

Reading and Writing

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 413-439

  Tamaoka, Katsuo ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Inhibitory effects; Lexical decision; Lexical homophony; Naming; Rebounding activation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249882772     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-006-9036-8     Document Type: Article

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