Interpreting null pronouns (pro) in isolated sentences

Lingua

Volumn 119, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 989-1008

  Christianson, Kiel ^a   Cho, Hee Youn ^a  

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

Author keywords

Algonquian; Language comprehension; Language processing; Pronoun interpretation; Psycholinguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 64649104169     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2008.11.005     Document Type: Article

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