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SUBMITTER: Janssen N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3314013 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Janssen Niels N Barber Horacio A HA
PloS one 20120327 3
A classic debate in the psychology of language concerns the question of the grain-size of the linguistic information that is stored in memory. One view is that only morphologically simple forms are stored (e.g., 'car', 'red'), and that more complex forms of language such as multi-word phrases (e.g., 'red car') are generated on-line from the simple forms. In two experiments we tested this view. In Experiment 1, participants produced noun+adjective and noun+noun phrases that were elicited by exper ...[more]