Conceptual influences on word order and voice in sentence production: Evidence from Japanese

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 318-330

  Tanaka, Mikihiro N ^a   Branigan, Holly P ^b   McLean, Janet F ^b   Pickering, Martin J ^b  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animacy; Conceptual accessibility; Japanese; Language production; Syntactic processing; Syntax

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052021816     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2011.04.009     Document Type: Article

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