ERP evidence for the rapid assignment of an (appropriate) antecedent to PRO

Cognitive Science

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 343-354

  Demestre, Josep ^a   García Albea, José E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antecedent assignment; Auditory ERPs; Gender agreement; Null subject; Sentence processing in Spanish

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347340655     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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