Participant and word gender in age of acquisition effects: The role of gender socialization

Sex Roles

Volumn 61, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 510-518

  Sereno, Sara C ^a   O'Donnell, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age of acquisition; AoA; Gender socialization; Lexical decision; Participant gender; Semantic gender; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350151373     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-009-9649-x     Document Type: Article

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