Compound words and structure in the lexicon

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 953-1000

  Fiorentino, Robert ^a   Poeppel, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

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ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

EID: 41149129622     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960701190215     Document Type: Article

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