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The Associative Structure of the Mental Lexicon: Hierarchical Semantic Relations in the Minds of Blind and Sighted Language Users

Psychology of Language and Communication
Volume 19 (2015): Issue 1 (May 2015)
By: Nawoja Mikołajczak-Matyja  
Open Access
|May 2015

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/plc-2015-0001 | Journal eISSN: 2083-8506 | Journal ISSN: 1234-2238
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Language: English
Page range: 1 - 18
Published on: May 29, 2015
Published by: Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
mental lexicon,
semantic relation,
hyponymy,
meronymy,
visual impairment,
blindness,
verbal associations
Related subjects:
Social sciences,
Psychology,
Applied psychology

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