Agreement attraction in Spanish comprehension

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 82, Issue , 2015, Pages 133-149

  Lago, Sol ^a   Shalom, Diego E ^b   Sigman, Mariano ^b   Lau, Ellen F ^a   Phillips, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Agreement attraction; Number morphology; Sentence comprehension; Spanish

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928734047     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2015.02.002     Document Type: Article

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