The Parser Doesn't Ignore Intransitivity, After All

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 550-569

  Staub, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

argument structure; eye movements; parsing; sentence processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; READING; SEMANTICS;

ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 34547435652     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.33.3.550     Document Type: Article

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