Identifying the role of phonology in sentence-level reading

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 79-80, Issue , 2015, Pages 18-29

  Kush, Dave ^a   Johns, Clinton L ^a   Van Dyke, Julie A ^a  

^a HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Phonological interference; Retrieval interference; Sentence comprehension; Sentence processing; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922244002     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2014.11.001     Document Type: Article

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