Semantic context effects in language production: A swinging lexical network proposal and a review

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 713-734

  Abdel Rahman, Rasha ^a   Melinger, Alissa ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

EID: 68949084366     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960802597250     Document Type: Article

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