Little houses and casas pequeñas: Message formulation and syntactic form in unscripted speech with speakers of English and Spanish

Cognition

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 274-280

  Brown Schmidt, Sarah ^a   Konopka, Agnieszka E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversation; Eye tracking; Language production; Message formulation; Referential domain; Scalar adjective; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; THINKING;

ADULT; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MULTILINGUALISM; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 55949092240     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.07.011     Document Type: Article

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