The Relationship between Syntactic and Semantic Processes in Sentence Comprehension

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 423-484

  Boland, Julie E ^a,b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 137 Townshend Hall ^*  (United States)

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EID: 0031504009     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/016909697386808     Document Type: Article

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