Given-new ordering effects on the production of scrambled sentences in Japanese

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 669-692

  Ferreira, Victor S ^a,b   Yoshita, Hiromi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Given new ordering; Grammatical encoding; Information structure; Japanese scrambling; Language production

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 2142719781     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026146332132     Document Type: Article

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