Psycholinguistic evidence for the underspecification of morphosyntactic features

Brain and Language

Volumn 90, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 423-433

  Penke, Martina ^a   Janssen, Ulrike ^a   Eisenbeiss, Sonja ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

German determiner and adjective inflection; Inflectional paradigm; Morphosyntactic features; Sentence matching; Underspecification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; SPEECH; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 2542418869     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00453-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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