The rhymes that the reader perused confused the meaning: Phonological effects during on-line sentence comprehension

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 193-207

  Acheson, Daniel J ^a,b   MacDonald, Maryellen C ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Phonological representations; Relative clauses; Sentence comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958163080     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2011.04.006     Document Type: Article

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