Number of meanings and concreteness: Consequences of ambiguity within and across languages

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 727-779

  Tokowicz, Natasha ^a   Kroll, Judith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 34648835060     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960601057068     Document Type: Article

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