How word recognition reaction times correlate with lexical and morpho-syntactic processing

Mental Lexicon

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 354-379

  Mondini, Sara ^a,b   Kehayia, Eva ^c   Gillon, Brendan ^d   Arcara, Giorgio ^a   Jarema, Gonia ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Casa di Cura Figlie di San Camillo   (Italy)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Count nouns; Lexical decision; Lexicalized features; Mass nouns; Morpho syntactic features; Sentence priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 72449155753     PISSN: 18711340     EISSN: 18711375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ml.4.3.03mon     Document Type: Article

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