Children's eye movements during listening: Developmental evidence for a constraint-based theory of sentence processing

The Interface of Language, Vision, and Action: Eye Movements and the Visual World

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 319-346

  Trueswell, John ^a   Gleitman, Lila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203488430     Document Type: Chapter

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