Gapping: Electrophysiological evidence for immediate processing of "missing" verbs in sentence comprehension

Brain and Language

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 584-592

  Kaan, Edith ^a   Wijnen, Frank ^b   Swaab, Tamara Y ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaphora; Ellipsis; ERPs; Gapping; N400; P600; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS;

EID: 2142669385     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2004.02.004     Document Type: Article

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