Charting the time-course of VP-ellipsis sentence comprehension: Evidence for an initial and independent structural analysis

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-19

  Shapiro, Lewis P ^a   Hestvik, Arild ^b,c   Lesan, Lesli ^a   Garcia, A Rachel ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Language comprehension; Lexical; Syntax; VP ellipsis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037670372     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-596X(03)00026-3     Document Type: Article

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