The on-line processing of verb-phrase ellipsis in aphasia

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 237-253

  Poirier, Josée ^a   Shapiro, Lewis P ^a   Love, Tracy ^a,b   Grodzinsky, Yosef ^c  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Aphasia classification; Sentence processing; Verb phrase ellipsis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANOMIA; ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STROKE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANOMIA; APHASIA, BROCA; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STROKE;

EID: 67349286561     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-009-9108-4     Document Type: Article

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