Why is that? Structural prediction and ambiguity resolution in a very large corpus of English sentences

Cognition

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 245-272

  Roland, Douglas ^a   Elman, Jeffrey L ^a   Ferreira, Victor S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; HEARING; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

COGNITION; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 30044437820     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2004.11.008     Document Type: Article

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