Interactions of meaning and syntax: Implications for models of sentence comprehension

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 270-290

  McKoon, Gail ^a   Ratcliff, Roger ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Sentence comprehension; Sentence meaning; Syntax processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846320484     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2006.07.006     Document Type: Article

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