Incrementality and prediction in human sentence processing

Cognitive Science

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 583-609

  Altmann, Gerry T M ^a   Mirković, Jelena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Incrementality; Prediction; Sentence processing; Simple recurrent network; Thematic roles

Indexed keywords

EID: 69449096315     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2009.01022.x     Document Type: Article

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