Children's (in)ability to recover from garden paths in a verb-final language: Evidence for developing control in sentence processing

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-61

  Choi, Youngon ^a,b   Trueswell, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Ambiguity resolution; Cognitive control; Executive function; Korean; Language development; Parsing; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; KOREA; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; CUES; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KOREA; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS;

EID: 77649193083     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2010.01.003     Document Type: Article

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