Lexical and semantic age-of-acquisition effects on word naming in Spanish

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 297-311

  Davies, Robert ^a   Barbón, Analia ^b   Cuetos, Fernando ^b  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Age of acquisition; Curvilinear; Naming; Orthographic transparency; Reading; Spanish

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; READING; SEMANTICS; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84873261660     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-012-0263-8     Document Type: Article

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