Syntactic priming without lexical overlap in reading comprehension

Language and Speech

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 181-195

  Kim, Christina S ^a   Carbary, Kathleen M ^b   Tanenhaus, Michael K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Columbia Basin College   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment ambiguity; Reading; Sentence comprehension; Syntactic priming

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME;

COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84905116622     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0023830913496052     Document Type: Article

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