The effects of phrase-length order and scrambling in the processing of visually presented Japanese sentences

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 431-454

  Tamaoka, Katsuo ^a   Sakai, Hiromu ^a   Kawahara, Jun Ichiro ^a   Miyaoka, Yayoi ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Phrase length order; Scrambling; Sentence processing; Syntactic structure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; REACTION TIME; READING; VISION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; REACTION TIME; READING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 3543044440     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024851729985     Document Type: Article

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