The role of prominence in pronoun resolution: Active versus passive representations

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 357-383

  Foraker, Stephani ^a   McElree, Brian ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Pronoun resolution; Speed accuracy tradeoff; Syntactic clefting; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847097352     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2006.07.004     Document Type: Article

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