The effect of grammatical gender and semantic context on lexical access in Italian using a timed word-naming paradigm

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 417-430

  Bentrovato, Simone ^a,b,c   Devescovi, Antonella ^b   D'Amico, Simona ^d   Wicha, Nicole ^a   Bates, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Lexical access; Sentence priming; Word reading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; RANDOMIZATION; SEMANTICS; TIME;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 3542996355     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024899513147     Document Type: Article

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