Prosodic breaks in sentence processing investigated by event-related potentials

Linguistics and Language Compass

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 424-440

  Bögels, Sara ^a   Schriefers, Herbert ^a   Vonk, Wietske ^b   Chwilla, Dorothee J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

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EID: 79960072133     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1749818X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2011.00291.x     Document Type: Article

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