Linguistic complexity and information structure in Korean: Evidence from eye-tracking during reading

Cognition

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 495-534

  Lee, Yoonhyoung ^a   Lee, Hanjung ^b   Gordon, Peter C ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Information structure; Korean; Linguistic complexity; Noun phrase; Online comprehension; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPREHENSION; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KOREA; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; READING; SACCADES;

EID: 34447249763     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.07.013     Document Type: Article

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