The status of subject-object reanalyses in the language comprehension architecture

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 54-96

  Haupt, Friederike S ^a   Schlesewsky, Matthias ^b   Roehm, Dietmar ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^a   Bornkessel Schlesewsky, Ina ^a  

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

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extended Argument Dependency Model; Grammatical function reanalysis; Late positivity; N400; P600; Subject object ambiguity

Indexed keywords

EID: 44349170535     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2008.02.003     Document Type: Article

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