'Fell' primes 'fall', but does 'bell' prime 'ball'? Masked priming with irregularly-inflected primes

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 83-99

  Crepaldi, Davide ^a   Rastle, Kathleen ^b   Coltheart, Max ^c   Nickels, Lyndsey ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Irregular inflection; Lemma level; Masked priming; Morpho orthographic segmentation; Morphology; Printed word recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951652745     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

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