The interpretation of ambiguous trimorphemic words in sentence context

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 88-94

  Pollatsek, Alexander ^a   Drieghe, Denis ^b   Stockall, Linnaea ^c   de Almeida, Roberto G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; READING; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS;

EID: 74849108006     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.17.1.88     Document Type: Article

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