Processing polarity: How the ungrammatical intrudes on the grammatical

Cognitive Science

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 685-712

  Vasishth, Shravan ^a   Brussow, Sven ^b   Lewis, Richard ^c   Drenhaus, Heiner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

ACT R; Computational modeling; Eye tracking; Reading; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 45949104011     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03640210802066865     Document Type: Article

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