LEXIN: A lexical database from Spanish kindergarten and first-grade readers

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1009-1017

  Corral, Silvia ^a   Ferrero, Marta ^a   Goikoetxea, Edurne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEUSTO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SPAIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTERS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE; SPAIN; VOCABULARY;

EID: 74949130918     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BRM.41.4.1009     Document Type: Article

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