The time-course of morphological constraints: Evidence from eye-movements during reading

Cognition

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 476-494

  Cunnings, Ian ^a   Clahsen, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compounds; Eye movement; Inflection; Morphology; Processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOLOGY; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; WORD LIST RECALL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; READING; SACCADES; SEMANTICS;

EID: 34447259549     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.07.010     Document Type: Article

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