Is lexical selection in spoken word production competitive? Introduction to the special issue on lexical competition in language production

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 597-614

  Spalek, Katharina ^a   Damian, Markus F ^b   Bölte, Jens ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competition; Lexical selection; Picture word interference; Speaking; Word production

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEXICAL SELECTION; MENTAL TASK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84879154375     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2012.718088     Document Type: Article

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