Coercion in sentence processing: Evidence from eye-movements and self-paced reading

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 530-547

  Traxler, Matthew J ^a   Pickering, Martin J ^a   McElree, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coercion; Semantics; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036827257     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-596X(02)00021-9     Document Type: Article

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