Putting lexical constraints in context into the visual-world paradigm

Cognition

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 850-903

  Novick, Jared M ^a   Thompson Schill, Sharon L ^a   Trueswell, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextual constraints; Individual differences; Lexical constraints; Parsing; Reading time measures; Syntactic ambiguity resolution; Visual world paradigm

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPETITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTINGENCY TABLE; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; KINDERGARTEN; LINGUISTICS; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THEORY; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CHILD; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 42249103973     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.12.011     Document Type: Article

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