The contributions of lexico-semantic and discourse information to the resolution of ambiguous categorical anaphors

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 793-827

  Ditman, Tali ^a   Holcomb, Phillip J ^a   Kuperberg, Gina R ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 34548703352     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960601057126     Document Type: Article

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