Constituent structure and linear order in language production: Evidence from subject-verb agreement

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 891-904

  Haskell, Todd R ^a   MacDonald, Maryellen C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Language production; Subject verb agreement; Syntactic structure; Word order

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 27944453464     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.31.5.891     Document Type: Article

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