Complement Coercion Is Not Modulated by Competition: Evidence From Eye Movements

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-11

  Frisson, Steven ^a   McElree, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

competition; complement coercion; eye movements; semantics; sentence processing

Indexed keywords

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

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

EID: 38649100368     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.34.1.1     Document Type: Article

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