Phrasing effects in comprehending PP constructions

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 245-265

  Pynte, Joel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Phrasing; PP attachment; Prosody; Syntactic parsing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; FRANCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSICIAN; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

COMPREHENSION; FRANCE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHYSICIANS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33745851852     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-006-9014-y     Document Type: Article

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