The Real-Time Processing of Sluiced Sentences

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 411-427

  Poirier, Josée ^a,b   Wolfinger, Katie ^b   Spellman, Lisa ^b   Shapiro, Lewis P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Ellipsis; Sentence processing; Sluicing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957267978     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-010-9148-9     Document Type: Article

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