On the universality of language comprehension strategies: Evidence from Turkish

Cognition

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 484-500

  Demiral, Şükrü Bariş ^a   Schlesewsky, Matthias ^b   Bornkessel Schlesewsky, Ina ^a  

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

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animacy; Language comprehension; Minimality; Subject preference; Subject object ambiguity; Turkish

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MOTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; READING; SEMANTICS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 36849011501     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.01.008     Document Type: Article

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