Agreement and movement: A syntactic analysis of attraction

Cognition

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 173-216

  Franck, Julie ^a   Lassi, Glenda ^b   Frauenfelder, Ulrich H ^a   Rizzi, Luigi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attraction; Experimental psycholinguistics; Formal syntax; Movement; Sentence production; Subject verb agreement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS;

EID: 33745482447     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2005.10.003     Document Type: Article

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