"Who's he?" Event-related brain potentials and unbound pronouns

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 76, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-28

  Nieuwland, Mante S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Gender; Nref; P600; Pronouns; Sentence comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903632993     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2014.06.002     Document Type: Article

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