Positional influences on information packaging: Insights from topological fields in German

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 295-310

  Schumacher, Petra B ^a   Hung, Yu Chen ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discourse; Givenness; Late Positivity; N400; Word order

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864000505     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2012.05.006     Document Type: Article

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