Evidence against competition during syntactic ambiguity resolution

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 284-307

  van Gompel, Roger P G ^a   Pickering, Martin J ^b   Pearson, Jamie ^b   Liversedge, Simon P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competition; Reanalysis; Sentence processing; Syntactic ambiguity resolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 13644275509     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2004.11.003     Document Type: Article

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