Phonology as the source of syllable frequency effects in visual word recognition: Evidence from French

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 974-983

  Conrad, Markus ^a   Grainger, Jonathan ^b   Jacobs, Arthur M ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PHONETICS; RESPONSE TIME; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 34548641081     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193470     Document Type: Article

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