Effects of antecedent order and semantic context on Chinese pronoun resolution

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 427-438

  Chen, Hsuan Chih ^a   Cheung, Him ^b   Tang, Siu Lam ^a   Wong, Yuk Tak ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; READING; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0034084021     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03198558     Document Type: Article

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