Readers' eye movements distinguish anomalies of form and content

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 25-44

  Braze, David ^a,c   Shankweiler, Donald ^a   Ni, Weijia ^b   Palumbo, Laura Conway ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c Hawkins Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomaly; Eye movements; Parsing; Pragmatics; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; READING;

EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; READING;

EID: 0036360099     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014324220455     Document Type: Article

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