Real-time production of unergative and unaccusative sentences in normal and agrammatic speakers: An eyetracking study

Aphasiology

Volumn 25, Issue 6-7, 2011, Pages 813-825

  Lee, Jiyeon ^a   Thompson, Cynthia K ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrammatism; Eyetracking; Sentence production; Unaccusative verbs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGRAMMATIC APHASIA; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; UNACCUSATIVE SENTENCE; UNERGATIVE SENTENCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 79958862678     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: 14645041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2010.542563     Document Type: Article

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