Strategies for Processing Unbounded Dependencies: Lexical Information and Verb-Argument Assignment

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1401-1410

  Pickering, Martin J ^a   Traxler, Matthew J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; READING;

ADULT; COGNITION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING;

EID: 85047681884     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.27.6.1401     Document Type: Article

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