No nouns, no verbs: Psycholinguistic arguments in favor of lexical underspecification

Lingua

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 771-791

  Barner, David ^a   Bale, Alan ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed morphology; Lexical underspecification; Semantic bootstrapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344676914     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-3841(02)00050-5     Document Type: Note

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