Younger and older adults' "good-enough" interpretations of garden-path sentences

Discourse Processes

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 205-238

  Christianson, Kiel ^a   Williams, Carrick C ^b   Zacks, Rose T ^c   Ferreira, Fernanda ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33748542636     PISSN: 0163853X     EISSN: 15326950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15326950dp4202_6     Document Type: Article

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