Syntactic priming of nouns and verbs in Chinese

Language and Speech

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 437-471

  Lu, Ching Ching ^a   Bates, Elizabeth ^b,d   Hung, Daisy ^c   Tzeng, Ovid ^c   Hsu, Jean ^a   Tsai, Chih Hao ^c   Roe, Katherine ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese; Cued shadowing; Nouns; Picture naming; Syntactic priming; Verbs

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TIME;

CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0035553375     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00238309010440040201     Document Type: Article

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