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German Capitalization of Nouns and the Detection of Letters in Continuous Text.

The missing-letter effect refers to the phenomenon that letters are more difficult to detect in common function words (such as the) than in content words. Assuming that the missing-letter effect is diagnostic of the extraction of text structure, we exploited a special feature of German - the convent...

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Published in:Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology Vol. 59; no. 3; pp. 143 - 159
Main Authors: Müsseler, Jochen, Nisslein, Monika, Koriat, Asher
Format: Article
Published: Canadian Psychological Association September 2005
Subjects:
German language
Nouns
Word recognition
Reading
Psychology
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