Zero anaphora: Transfer of reference tracking strategies from Chinese to English

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 99-131

  Tao, Liang ^a,b   Healy, Alice F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese language; Cross language transfer; Reading comprehension; Reference tracking strategies; Zero anaphora

Indexed keywords

CHINA; COGNITION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; READING; REVIEW; TIME; UNITED STATES;

CHINA; COGNITION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; READING; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); UNITED STATES; VOCABULARY;

EID: 21244454921     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-005-3634-5     Document Type: Review

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