Discovering large grain sizes in a transparent orthography: Insights from a connectionist model of Italian word naming

European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 813-835

  Pagliuca, Giovanni ^a   Monaghan, Padraic ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grain size; Modelling; Morphology; Naming; Neighbourhood size; Orthographic depth; Stress assignment

Indexed keywords

PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; REVIEW; SIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 77954994914     PISSN: 09541446     EISSN: 14640635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09541440903172158     Document Type: Review

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