Reflexive anaphor resolution in spoken language comprehension: Structural constraints and beyond

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Clackson, Kaili ^a   Heyer, Vera ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Binding principle A; Discourse prominence; Eye tracking; Reflexive resolution; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906352132     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00904     Document Type: Article

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