Representing number in the real-time processing of agreement: Self-paced reading evidence from Arabic

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Tucker, Matthew A ^a   Idrissi, Ali ^b   Almeida, Diogo ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI   (United Arab Emirates)

^b QATAR UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

Author keywords

Abstract morphology; Agreement; Arabic; Plurals; Self paced reading; Sentence processing; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926616620     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00347     Document Type: Article

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