Left-edge boundary tone and main clause verb effects on syntactic processing in embedded clauses - An ERP study

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 55-73

  Roll, Mikael ^a   Horne, Merle ^a   Lindgren, Magnus ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Boundary tone; ERP; Intonation; P600; Pragmatics; Prosody; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 56449083653     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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