Linguistic complexity: Locality of syntactic dependencies

Cognition

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-76

  Gibson, Edward ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational resources; Linguistic complexity; Sentence processing; Syntactic dependency

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION TREE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL;

DECISION TREES; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 0032135489     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(98)00034-1     Document Type: Article

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