Real-time processing of passives versus actives: different patterns during form retrieval and meaning construction.
Despite the impression that we use a uniform approach to understanding sentences, humans' processing strategies adjust based on the specific tasks. This study employs two task types that have been rarely used in previous research on passives, which are non-canonical compared to actives and are argua...
| Publicado en: | Language, Cognition & Neuroscience Vol. 41; no. 3; pp. 347 - 360 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Apr2026
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