Direct-access retrieval during sentence comprehension: Evidence from Sluicing

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 327-343

  Martin, Andrea E ^a   McElree, Brian ^b  

^a BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ellipsis; Recency; Retrieval interference; Sentence processing; Serial position; Sluicing; Speed accuracy tradeoff

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953219015     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2010.12.006     Document Type: Article

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