Visual Attention and Structural Choice in Sentence Production Across Languages

Linguistics and Language Compass

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 95-107

  Myachykov, Andriy ^a   Thompson, Dominic ^a   Scheepers, Christoph ^a   Garrod, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 79951807043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1749818X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2010.00265.x     Document Type: Review

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