Interpreting pronouns and demonstratives in Finnish: Evidence for a form-specific approach to reference resolution

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 709-748

  Kaiser, Elsi ^a   Trueswell, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE TRACKING; FINLAND; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 46649115302     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960701771220     Document Type: Article

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