Children's comprehension of sentences with focus particles

Cognition

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 263-294

  Paterson, Kevin B ^a   Liversedge, Simon P ^b   Rowland, Caroline ^c   Filik, Ruth ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Focus particles; Language acquisition; Semantic interpretation

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; SYNTACTICS;

SENTENCE PROCESSING;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0041334153     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(03)00126-4     Document Type: Article

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