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...
| Publicado en: | Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology Vol. 59; no. 3; pp. 143 - 159 |
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Canadian Psychological Association
September 2005
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