Invoking discourse-based contrast sets and resolving syntactic ambiguities

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 341-370

  Sedivy, Julie C ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Discourse context; Focus; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036008453     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.2001.2812     Document Type: Article

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