Morphological decomposition and the transposed-letter (TL) position effect

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 917-938

  Taft, Marcus ^a   Nillsen, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Letter position; Morphological decomposition; Prefixed words; Transposed letters

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSED LETTER POSITION EFFECT;

EID: 84880506828     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2012.679662     Document Type: Article

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