Morphological structure in the Arabic mental lexicon: Parallels between standard and dialectal Arabic

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1453-1473

  Boudelaa, Sami ^a,b   Marslen Wilson, William D ^b,c  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dialectal Arabic; Diglossia; Language comprehension; Modern Standard Arabic; Morphology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUNISIA;

EID: 84887900980     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2012.719629     Document Type: Article

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