Effects of syntactic category assignment on lexical ambiguity resolution in reading: An eye movement analysis

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 87-99

  Folk, Jocelyn R ^a   Morris, Robin K ^b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0037235624     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196085     Document Type: Article

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