Exploiting Degrees of Inflectional Ambiguity: Stem Form and the Time Course of Morphological Processing

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 221-237

  Järvikivi, Juhani ^a,b   Pyykkönen, Pirita ^a   Niemi, Jussi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

ambiguity; Finnish; inflection; masked priming; morphological processing

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 58449092870     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014355     Document Type: Article

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