The influence of frequency across the time course of morphological processing: Evidence from the transposed-letter effect

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 781-799

  Luke, Steven G ^a   Christianson, Kiel ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Eye tracking; Inflection; Masked priming; Morphology; Transposed letter effect; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EYE TRACKING; GAZE; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN;

EID: 84887628244     PISSN: 20445911     EISSN: 2044592X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2013.832682     Document Type: Article

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