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Publication details [#10673]

Engelkamp, Johannes. 1988. Nouns and verbs in the mental lexicon. In Hüllen, Werner and Rainer Schulze, eds. Understanding the lexicon: Meaning, sense, and world knowledge in lexical semantics. Max Niemeyer. pp. 303–313.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

memory | mental representation | noun | verb

Annotation

E. aims to contribute to an explanation of the observation that nouns are better retained than verbs in memory experiments, through showing that nouns and verbs differ in their mental representation and in the organization of their meanings in memory.