More than words: Frequency effects for multi-word phrases

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 67-82

  Arnon, Inbal ^a   Snider, Neal ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Comprehension; Frequency; Lexicon; Ngram; Usage based models

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450224439     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2009.09.005     Document Type: Article

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