Priming the interpretation of noun-noun combinations

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 380-395

  Raffray, Claudine N ^a   Pickering, Martin J ^b   Branigan, Holly P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compound nouns; Conceptual combination; Noun noun combinations; Relation priming; Semantic priming; Thematic relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548218329     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2007.06.009     Document Type: Article

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