Children's processing of reflexives and pronouns in English: Evidence from eye-movements during listening

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 128-144

  Clackson, Kaili ^a   Felser, Claudia ^a   Clahsen, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anaphor resolution; Binding constraints; Children's sentence processing; Eye tracking during listening

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958092010     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2011.04.007     Document Type: Article

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