Understanding and producing the reduced relative construction: Evidence from ratings, editing and corpora

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 410-435

  Hare, Mary ^a   Tanenhaus, Michael K ^b   McRae, Ken ^c  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Language comprehension; Language production; Lexical semantics; Meaning through syntax (MTS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847114394     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2006.08.007     Document Type: Article

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