Why a "word order difference" is not always a "word order" difference: A Reply to Weyerts, Penke, Münte, Heinze, and Clahsen

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 437-445

  Schlesewsky, Matthias ^a   Bornkessel, Ina ^b   Meyer, Martin ^c  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anterior negativity; ERPs; P600; Syntactic processing cost; Verb placement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY;

EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0036768305     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021209818415     Document Type: Article

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