The initial capitalization superiority effect in German: Evidence for a perceptual frequency variant of the orthographic cue hypothesis of visual word recognition

Psychological Research

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 657-665

  Jacobs, Arthur M ^a   Nuerk, Hans Christoph ^b   Graf, Ralf ^c   Braun, Mario ^a   Nazir, Tatjana A ^d  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EICHSTÄTT INGOLSTADT   (Germany)

^d CNRS   (France)

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EID: 85016382211     PISSN: 03400727     EISSN: 14302772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-008-0168-0     Document Type: Article

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