Reading relative clauses in English

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 313-353

  Gibson, Edward ^a   Desmet, Timothy ^a   Grodner, Daniel ^a   Watson, Duane ^a   Ko, Kara ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information flow; Relative clause; Sentence complexity; Sentence comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 23844527484     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 09365907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cogl.2005.16.2.313     Document Type: Review

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