Mrs. Malaprop's neighborhood: Using word errors to reveal neighborhood structure

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 113-134

  Goldrick, Matthew ^a,b   Folk, Jocelyn R ^c   Rapp, Brenda ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Language production; Lexical neighborhood

Indexed keywords

EID: 73649146977     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2009.11.008     Document Type: Article

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