The processing of familiar and novel senses of a word: Why reading Dickens is easy but reading Needham can be hard

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 595-613

  Frisson, Steven ^a   Pickering, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 34648846830     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960601017013     Document Type: Article

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