How and when prosodic boundaries influence syntactic parsing under different discourse contexts: An ERP study

Biological Psychology

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 250-259

  Li, Xiao qing ^a   Yang, Yu fang ^a   Lu, Yong ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b TIANJIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Prosodic boundaries; Spoken language comprehension; Syntactic parsing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77349115115     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2010.01.009     Document Type: Article

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