Syntactic priming in comprehension: Parallelism effects with and without coordination

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 333-351

  Sturt, Patrick ^a   Keller, Frank ^a   Dubey, Amit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eye tracking; Parallelism; Sentence processing; Syntactic priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949874602     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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