Morphosyntax, prosody, and linking elements: The auditory processing of German nominal compounds

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1647-1668

  Koester, Dirk ^a   Gunter, Th C ^a   Wagner, S ^b   Friederici, A D ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 10144264573     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0898929042568541     Document Type: Article

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