Contributions of animacy to grammatical function assignment and word order during production

Lingua

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 172-189

  Branigan, Holly P ^a   Pickering, Martin J ^a   Tanaka, Mikihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animacy; Conceptual accessibility; Grammatical functions; Language production; Syntax; Word order

Indexed keywords

EID: 36549030237     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2007.02.003     Document Type: Article

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