Data from eye-tracking corpora as evidence for theories of syntactic processing complexity

Cognition

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 193-210

  Demberg, Vera ^a   Keller, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corpus data; Dependency locality theory; Eye tracking; Processing complexity; Surprisal

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; EYE TRACKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55949109980     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.07.008     Document Type: Article

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