Lexical knowledge and lexical retrieval in ageing: Insights from a tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) study

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1301-1334

  Juncos Rabadán, Onésimo ^a   Facal, David ^a   Rodríguez, María Soledad ^a   Pereiro, Arturo X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ageing; Inhibition; Lexical access; Tip of the tongue; Transmission; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 78649755580     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690961003589484     Document Type: Article

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