Accounting for regressive eye-movements in models of sentence processing: A reappraisal of the Selective Reanalysis hypothesis

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 266-293

  Mitchell, Don C ^a   Shen, Xingjia ^a   Green, Matthew J ^a   Hodgson, Timothy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational models; Eye movements; Human parsing; Regressions; Selective Reanalysis; Syntactic ambiguity resolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 50849118781     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2008.06.002     Document Type: Article

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