The effects of punctuations in Chinese sentence comprehension: An ERP study

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 66-80

  Liu, Baolin ^a   Wang, Zhongning ^a   Jin, Zhixing ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CPS; Late positive shift; Metafunction; N400; P600; Punctuation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINESE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 70350036102     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2009.08.004     Document Type: Article

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