An artificial opposition between grammaticality and frequency: Comment on Bornkessel, Schlesewsky, and Friederici (2002)

Cognition

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 205-210

  Kempen, Gerard ^a,b,d   Harbusch, Karin ^c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c University of Koblenz Landau ^*  (Germany)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Frequency; German; Grammaticality judgments; Parsing difficulty; Word order

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

FREQUENCY DATA;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

ACCURACY; COGNITION; ERROR; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; GERMANY; LANGUAGE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0242321780     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(03)00145-8     Document Type: Note

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