Effects and Limitations of Prosodic and Semantic Biases on Syntactic Disambiguation

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 229-245

  Misono, Yasuko ^a,b   Mazuka, Reiko ^b   Kondo, Tadahisa ^c   Kiritani, Shigeru ^d  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISION;

HUMANS; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031090011     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025065700451     Document Type: Article

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