Is Milkman a superhero like Batman? Constituent morphological priming in compound words

European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 615-640

  Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni ^a   Laka, Itziar ^b   Perea, Manuel ^c   Carreiras, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Compound words; Morphological decomposition; Morphological priming

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 70450170902     PISSN: 09541446     EISSN: 14640635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09541440802079835     Document Type: Article

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