Processing focus structure and implicit prosody during reading: Differential ERP effects

Cognition

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 565-590

  Stolterfoht, Britta ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^b   Alter, Kai ^c   Steube, Anita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ellipsis; ERPs; Focus structure; Implicit prosody

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; THEORY; WAVEFORM; WRITTEN LANGUAGE;

BRAIN; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 34447260248     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.08.001     Document Type: Article

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