Cross-linguistic priming of syntactic hierarchical configuration information

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 610-632

  Desmet, Timothy ^a   Declercq, Mieke ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Relative clause attachment; Syntactic ambiguity; Syntactic priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645751959     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2005.12.007     Document Type: Article

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