Effects of Local and Global Context on Processing Sentences with Subject and Object Relative Clauses

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 227-237

  Yang, Fang ^a   Mo, Lun ^b   Louwerse, Max M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse comprehension; Eye tracking; Garden Bath; Linguistic context; Sentence processing; Syntactic parsing

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; READING; STUDENT; UNITED STATES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPREHENSION; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; STUDENTS; TENNESSEE;

EID: 84878301853     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-012-9215-5     Document Type: Article

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