Productivity and priming: Morphemic decomposition in Arabic

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 4-6, 2011, Pages 624-652

  Boudelaa, Sami ^a,b   Marslen Wilson, William D ^b  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

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

Author keywords

Arabic patterns; Morphological productivity; Obligatory decomposition; Priming; Roots

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 79957559738     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2010.521022     Document Type: Article

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