Descriptive norms for 245 Italian idiomatic expressions

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 110-123

  Tabossi, Patrizia ^a,d   Arduino, Lisa ^b   Fanari, Rachele ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^d Dipartimento di Psicologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Descriptive norms; Idiomatic expressions; Italian

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ITALY; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; REFERENCE VALUE; SEMANTICS; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953719656     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-010-0018-z     Document Type: Article

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