Big brown dog or brown big dog? An electrophysiological study of semantic constraints on prenominal adjective order

Brain and Language

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 238-256

  Kemmerer, David ^a,b,c   Weber Fox, Christine ^a   Price, Karen ^a   Zdanczyk, Cynthia ^b   Way, Heather ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjectives; ERP; Event related potentials; Language; N400; P600; Semantics; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; BRAIN; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33947139708     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2005.12.002     Document Type: Article

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