Definiteness marking shows late effects during discourse processing: Evidence from ERPs

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5847 LNAI, Issue , 2009, Pages 91-106

  Schumacher, Petra B ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Definiteness; Event related brain potentials; Inferences; Referential processing

Indexed keywords

DEFINITENESS; EARLY PROCESSING; EVENT-RELATED BRAIN POTENTIAL; LATE EFFECTS; NOUN PHRASE; REFERENCE RESOLUTION; SUPPLEMENTARY DATA;

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS;

EID: 70549112163     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04975-0_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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