Chinese function words grammaticalized from content words: Evidence from ERPs

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 663-675

  Liu, Baolin ^a   Jin, Zhixing ^a   Wang, Zhongning ^a   Wu, Guangning ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese language; Content word; ERPs; Function word; Grammaticalization; N400; P600

Indexed keywords

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

EID: 77955559828     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2010.07.002     Document Type: Article

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