Semantic Priming Effects in Italian Verbs Recognition: the Role of Grammatical Classes and Semantic Categories
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English. The hypothesis that grammatical class information is represented in the mental lexicon and that it is activated during lexical access has generated a wide literature about the differences between nouns and verbs. However, the available evidences are dis-
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