In defense of competition during syntactic ambiguity resolution

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-9

  Vosse, Theo ^a   Kempen, Gerard ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ambiguity resolution; Competition; Reanalysis; Sentence comprehension; Syntactic processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PROBABILITY; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 58149154970     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-008-9075-1     Document Type: Article

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