Neurocognitive Contexts for Morphological Complexity: Dissociating Inflection and Derivation

Linguistics and Language Compass

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1063-1073

  Bozic, Mirjana ^a   Marslen Wilson, William ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 79951822348     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1749818X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2010.00254.x     Document Type: Review

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