Context effects in coercion: Evidence from eye movements

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-25

  Traxler, Matthew J ^a   McElree, Brian ^b   Williams, Rihana S ^c   Pickering, Martin J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coercion; Enriched composition; Semantics; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 20444401190     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2005.02.002     Document Type: Article

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