The online application of binding condition B in native and non-native pronoun resolution

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Patterson, Clare ^a   Trompelt, Helena ^a   Felser, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Binding; English; Eye movement monitoring; Pronoun resolution; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897663066     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00147     Document Type: Article

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