Structural and lexical constraints on filling gaps during sentence comprehension: A time-course analysis

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 432-460

  McElree, Brian ^a   Griffith, Teresa ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0032360722     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.24.2.432     Document Type: Article

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