Thematic Role Focusing by Participle Inflections: Evidence from Conceptual Combination

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 118-127

  Ferretti, Todd R ^a,c   Gagné, Christina L ^b   McRae, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SEMANTICS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 85047688060     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.29.1.118     Document Type: Article

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