Holistic Processing of Regular Four-word Sequences: A Behavioural and ERP Study of the Effects of Structure, Frequency, and Probability on Immediate Free Recall

Perspectives on Formulaic Language: Acquisition and Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 151-173

  Tremblay, Antoine ^a   Baayen, Harald ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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