Sources of sentence constraint on lexical ambiguity resolution

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 979-1001

  Vu, Hoang ^a   Kellas, George ^a   Paul, Stephen T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MENTAL TASK; METHODOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0031723770     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03201178     Document Type: Article

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