Blue car, red car: Developing efficiency in online interpretation of adjective-noun phrases

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 190-217

  Fernald, Anne ^a   Thorpe, Kirsten ^a   Marchman, Virginia A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjective noun integration; Adjectives; Eye movements; Language development; Lexical development; Online comprehension; Prenominal adjectives; Processing speed; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REACTION TIME;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 77649181864     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2009.12.002     Document Type: Article

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