Semantic property activation during the interpretation of combined concepts

Mental Lexicon

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-47

  Spalding, Thomas L ^a   Gagné, Christina L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Compounds; Conceptual combination; Noun noun phrases

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249145697     PISSN: 18711340     EISSN: 18711375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ml.2.1.03spa     Document Type: Article

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