Seeing a Phrase " Time and Again" Matters: The Role of Phrasal Frequency in the Processing of Multiword Sequences

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 776-784

  Siyanova Chanturia, Anna ^a   Conklin, Kathy ^b   van Heuven, Walter J B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilinguals; Eye tracking; Mental lexicon; Multiword sequences; Phrasal frequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; READING; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955705380     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022531     Document Type: Article

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