Small is beautiful: The processing of the left periphery in German

Lingua

Volumn 119, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1501-1522

  Roehm, Dietmar ^a   Haider, Hubert ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Language processing; Minimal Attachment; Morphosyntax; N400; P600; Reanalysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649122170     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2008.04.007     Document Type: Article

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