Early morphological processing is morphosemantic and not simply morpho-orthographic: A violation of form-then-meaning accounts of word recognition

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 684-691

  Feldman, Laurie Beth ^a,b   O'Connor, Patrick A ^a   Moscoso del Prado Martín, Fermín ^c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS;

ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 70449612556     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.16.4.684     Document Type: Article

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