Phrase length matters: The interplay between implicit prosody and syntax in Korean "garden path" sentences

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3555-3575

  Hwang, Hyekyung ^a   Steinhauer, Karsten ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KOREA; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053499197     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00001     Document Type: Article

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