The processing of subject and object relative clauses in Spanish: An eye-tracking study

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1915-1929

  Betancort, Moises ^a   Carreiras, Manuel ^b   Sturt, Patrick ^c  

^a Campus de Guajara S/N   (Spain)

^b BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animacy; Eye movements; Subject relative clause; Syntactic processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPAIN;

ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPAIN;

EID: 70449558563     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210902866672     Document Type: Article

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