Conjunction meaning can modulate parallelism facilitation: Eye-tracking evidence from German clausal coordination
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2014.05.002 0749-596X/ 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. ⇑ Address: Cognitive Interaction Technology Excellence Cluster, Inspiration 1, Room 2.036, Bielefeld University, D-33615 Bielefeld, Germany. Fax: +49 521 1066560. E-mail address: [email protected] 1 The present studies were conducted while the author was in the Department of Computational Linguistics at Saarland University, Germany. Pia Knoeferle ⇑,1
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