Electrophysiological correlates of prosody and punctuation

Brain and Language

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 142-164

  Steinhauer, Karsten ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Closure positive shift; Commas; CPS; Event related potentials; Garden path sentences; Language; P600; Prosody; Punctuation; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; READING; SPEECH;

EID: 0038141080     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(02)00542-4     Document Type: Article

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