Focus and noun phrase anaphors in spoken language comprehension

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 201-225

  Almor, Amit ^a   Eimas, Peter D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RECALL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD LIST RECALL;

EID: 39049130730     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960701330936     Document Type: Article

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