Structure and meaning in Chinese: An ERP study of idioms

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 615-630

  Liu, Youyi ^a   Li, Ping ^b   Shu, Hua ^a   Zhang, Qirui ^a   Chen, Lang ^c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese; ERP; Idioms; Language processing; Semantics; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CHINESE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 77955558588     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2010.06.001     Document Type: Article

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