The developing mental lexicon: Evidence from morphological priming of irregular Hebrew forms

Reading and Writing

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 719-743

  Schiff, Rachel ^a   Raveh, Michal ^a   Kahta, Shani ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Development; Mental lexicon; Morphological priming; Morphological processing; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 50249172219     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-007-9088-4     Document Type: Article

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