Implicit Acquisition of Grammars With Crossed and Nested Non-Adjacent Dependencies: Investigating the Push-Down Stack Model

Cognitive Science

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1078-1101

  Uddén, Julia ^a,b,c   Ingvar, Martin ^b   Hagoort, Peter ^a,c   Petersson, Karl M ^a,b,c,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Artificial grammar learning; Crossed; Implicit learning; Nested; Non adjacent dependencies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84862142401     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2012.01235.x     Document Type: Article

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