The empty category PRO: Processing what cannot be seen

The On-line Study of Sentence Comprehension: Eyetracking, ERPs and Beyond

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 95-118

  Betancort, Moisés ^a   Meseguer, Enrique ^a   Carreiras, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

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EID: 77949837666     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203509050     Document Type: Chapter

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