Constraining the comprehension of pronominal expressions in Chinese

Cognition

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 283-315

  Yang, Chin Lung ^a   Gordon, Peter C ^a   Hendrick, Randall ^a   Hue, Chih Wei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chinese; Comprehension; Constraining; Pronominal expressions; Syntax

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS;

PRONOMINAL EXPRESSIONS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENDER; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS;

COGNITION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0037212582     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(02)00182-8     Document Type: Article

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