Clusters in the mind?: Converging evidence from near synonymy in russian

Mental Lexicon

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 188-213

  Divjak, Dagmar ^a   Gries, Stefan Th ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral profiles; Cluster analysis; Gap filling; Lexical clusters; Mental correlates of linguistic models; Near synonymy; Russian; Sorting

Indexed keywords

EID: 69849124838     PISSN: 18711340     EISSN: 18711375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ml.3.2.03div     Document Type: Article

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