The role of the anterior left hemisphere in real-time sentence comprehension: Evidence from split intransitivity

Brain and Language

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 9-22

  Burkhardt, Petra ^a   Piñango, Maria Mercedes ^a   Wong, Keng ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrammatism; Aphasia; Broca's; Priming; Processing; Real time comprehension; Relative clauses; Unaccusativity; Verb argument

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASE REPORT; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE;

EID: 0038460839     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(02)00526-6     Document Type: Article

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