Structure, form, and meaning in the mental lexicon: evidence from Arabic

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 955-992

  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

Arabic; mental lexicon; morphological processing; roots; semantic and phonological effects; word patterns

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BOOK; FEMALE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; SEMANTIC MEMORYSEMANTIC MEMORY; SPEECH SOUND DISORDER;

EID: 84941415527     PISSN: 23273798     EISSN: 23273801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2015.1048258     Document Type: Article

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