The effect of syntactic constraints on the processing of backwards anaphora

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 384-409

  Kazanina, Nina ^a   Lau, Ellen F ^b   Lieberman, Moti ^c   Yoshida, Masaya ^b   Phillips, Colin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Binding; Cataphora; Coreference; Grammatical constraints; Parsing; Pronouns

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847104623     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2006.09.003     Document Type: Article

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