Antecedent priming at trace positions in Japanese long-distance scrambling

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 531-571

  Nakano, Yoko ^a   Felser, Claudia ^a   Clahsen, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross modal priming; Filler gap dependencies; Japanese; Reactivation; Scrambling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0036768851     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021260920232     Document Type: Article

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