The pragmatic meanings conveyed by function words in Chinese sentences: An ERP study

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 548-562

  Liu, Baolin ^a   Jin, Zhixing ^a   Li, Wenjun ^a   Li, Yanli ^a   Wang, Zhongning ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Actual context; Chinese language; ERPs; Function word; Pragmatic meaning; Preset context

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD LIST RECALL;

EID: 69249213895     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2009.06.003     Document Type: Article

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