Stem and whole-word frequency effects in the processing of inflected verbs in and out of a sentence context

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1173-1192

  Luke, Steven G ^a   Christianson, Kiel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Frequency; Inflection; Morphology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84855703853     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2010.510359     Document Type: Article

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