Plausibility and recovery from garden paths in second language sentence processing

Applied Psycholinguistics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 299-331

  Roberts, Leah ^a   Felser, Claudia ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 79960435738     PISSN: 01427164     EISSN: 14691817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0142716410000421     Document Type: Article

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