The syntactic positive shift (sps) as an erp measure of syntactic processing

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 439-483

  Hagoort, Peter ^a   Brown, Colin ^a   Groothusen, Jolanda ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

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EID: 33747030714     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690969308407585     Document Type: Article

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