Processing bare quantifiers in discourse

Brain Research

Volumn 1146, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 199-209

  Kaan, Edith ^a   Dallas, Andrea C ^a   Barkley, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse; ERP; Late positive complex; P600; Quantifier

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SPEECH;

EID: 34047271480     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.09.060     Document Type: Article

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