The return of the repressed: Abandoned parses facilitate syntactic reanalysis

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 299-323

  Staub, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Reanalysis; Sentence processing; Syntactic parsing

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249048339     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2006.09.001     Document Type: Article

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