Meanings, propositions, and verbs

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 592-597

  McKoon, Gail ^a   Ratcliff, Roger ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS;

HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 50949099333     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.15.3.592     Document Type: Article

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