Appearances Aren't Everything: Shape Classifiers and Referential Processing in Cantonese

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1065-1080

  Tsang, Cara ^a   Chambers, Craig G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Classifiers; Grammatical constraints; Reference resolution; Semantic constraints; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATTENTION; CLASSIFICATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEMANTICS; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEMANTICS; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; VOCABULARY;

EID: 80052867874     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023601     Document Type: Article

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