Semantics Does Not Need a Processing License From Syntax in Reading Chinese

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 765-781

  Zhang, Yaxu ^a   Yu, Jing ^a   Boland, Julie E ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

event related potentials; semantics; sentence processing; syntactic category; syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; READING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; REACTION TIME; READING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77953167822     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019254     Document Type: Article

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