Effects of case marking and word order on sentence parsing in finnish: An eye fixation analysis

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 841-858

  Hyönä, Jukka ^a   Hujanen, Heli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

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EID: 0347669610     PISSN: 02724987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713755738     Document Type: Article

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