Modeling the Influence of Thematic Fit (and Other Constraints) in On-line Sentence Comprehension

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 283-312

  McRae, Ken ^a   Spivey Knowlton, Michael J ^b   Tanenhaus, Michael K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b NONE

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EID: 0001515708     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.1997.2543     Document Type: Article

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