The psycholinguistics of ellipsis

Lingua

Volumn 151, Issue PA, 2014, Pages 78-95

  Phillips, Colin ^a   Parker, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Ellipsis; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911910279     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2013.10.003     Document Type: Review

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