Lexical mediation and context effects in sentence processing

Brain Research

Volumn 1146, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 59-74

  Traxler, Matthew J ^a   Tooley, Kristen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Hierarchical linear modeling; Lexical processing; Psycholinguistics; Sentence processing; Syntactic parsing; Syntax; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EYE TRACKING; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SPEECH; VERBALIZATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; COMMUNICATION; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LANGUAGE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

EID: 34047250832     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.10.010     Document Type: Article

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