Word length and lexical competition: longer is the same as shorter

Language and Speech

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 361-383

  Vitevitch, Michael S ^a   Stamer, Melissa K ^a   Sereno, Joan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bisyllabic words; Neighborhood activation model; Neighborhood density; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 67949124523     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0023830908099070     Document Type: Article

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