An on-line study of Japanese nesting complexity

Cognitive Science

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 94-112

  Nakatani, Kentaro ^a   Gibson, Edward ^b  

^a KONAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Expectation based parsing; Head final language; Japanese; Nested structures; Retrieval; Sentence processing; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953216727     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2009.01067.x     Document Type: Article

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