Syntactic Priming in Comprehension: The Role of Argument Order and Animacy

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1098-1110

  Carminati, Maria Nella ^a   van Gompel, Roger P G ^a   Scheepers, Christoph ^b   Arai, Manabu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

animacy; comprehension; semantics; structure; syntactic priming

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 55049133261     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0012795     Document Type: Article

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