Disambiguating Information and Memory Resources in Children's Processing of Italian Relative Clauses

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 137-154

  Arosio, Fabrizio ^a   Guasti, Maria Teresa ^a   Stucchi, Natale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agreement disambiguation; Animacy; Diagnosis and repair model; Digit span; Relative clauses; Self paced listening

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CHILD; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 79952992309     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-010-9160-0     Document Type: Article

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