Lingering effects of disfluent material on comprehension of garden path sentences

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 633-666

  Lau, Ellen F ^a   Ferreira, Fernanda ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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AMBIGUITY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 27744494778     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960444000142     Document Type: Article

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