Processing of temporary syntactic ambiguity in Italian "who"- questions: A study with event-related potentials

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 377, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 91-96

  Penolazzi, Barbara ^a   De Vincenzi, Marica ^b   Angrilli, Alessandro ^a   Job, Remo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Language processing; P300; P600; Syntactic ambiguity; Who questions

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 14644386799     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.11.074     Document Type: Article

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