The interplay between prosody and syntax in sentence processing: The case of subject- and object-control verbs

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1036-1053

  Bögels, Sara ^a   Schriefers, Herbert ^a   Vonk, Wietske ^a,b   Chwilla, Dorothee J ^a   Kerkhofs, Roel ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952085294     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21269     Document Type: Article

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