Homophone Dominance at the Whole-word and Sub-word Levels: Spelling Errors Suggest Full-form Storage of Regularly Inflected Verb Forms

Language and Speech

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 405-444

  Sandra, Dominiek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

frequency effect; homophones; intrusions; spelling errors

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955855955     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0023830910371459     Document Type: Article

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