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Peer reviewedGilboy, Elizabeth; And Others – Cognition, 1995
Three studies investigated Spanish and English readers' interpretations of sentences with complex noun phrases (NPs). In contrast to earlier findings, results provided evidence for cross-language universality of the late closure parsing principle. Results suggest that late closure is not language-specific but specific to only certain classes of…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, English, Language Patterns, Nouns
