How to prune a garden path by nipping it in the bud: Fast priming of verb argument structure

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 102-123

  Trueswell, John C ^a   Kim, Albert E ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Syntactic ambiguity; parsing; sentence comprehension; fast priming; argument structure.

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000414873     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.1998.2565     Document Type: Article

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