Constituent length affects prosody and processing for a dative NP ambiguity in Korean

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 151-175

  Hwang, Hyekyung ^a   Schafer, Amy J ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Korean; Prosody; Reading; Sentence comprehension; Sentence production

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; KOREA; LINGUISTICS; READING; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; HUMANS; KOREA; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME;

EID: 62349118910     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-008-9091-1     Document Type: Article

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