Acquiring novel words and their past tenses: Evidence from lexical effects on phonetic categorisation

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 210-225

  Lindsay, Shane ^a   Sedin, Leanne M ^a   Gaskell, M Gareth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lexicalization; Morphological processing; Phonetic categorization; Spoken word recognition; Word learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 81955162956     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2011.07.005     Document Type: Article

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