Dynamic grammar in adults: Incidental learning of natural syntactic structures extends over 48 h

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 345-360

  Luka, Barbara J ^a   Choi, Heidi ^a  

^a BARD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceptability judgment; Evaluative categorization; Grammaticality judgment; Sentence processing; Structural facilitation; Structural priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855962731     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2011.11.001     Document Type: Article

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