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Question Sentence Processing

Question Sentence Processing is a cognitive mechanism within the field of psycholinguistics that specifically governs the comprehension and interpretation of interrogative sentence structures, distinguished from other sentence processing mechanisms by its engagement with syntactic inversion, wh-movement, and pragmatic anticipation of information gaps.

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78

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53

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2017–2026

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Publications

41

The P600 as an index of syntactic integration difficulty

Edith Kaan, Anthony Harris, Edward Gibson et al. · Language and Cognitive Processes · 2000 · 991 citations

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Parsing WH-constructions: Evidence for on-line gap location

Laurie A. Stowe · Language and Cognitive Processes · 1986 · 592 citations

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Separating syntactic memory costs and syntactic integration costs during parsing: the processing of German WH-questions

Christian J. Fiebach, Matthias Schlesewsky, Angela D. Friederici · Journal of Memory and Language · 2002 · 389 citations · Full text

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An overview of the question–response system in American English conversation

Tanya Stivers · Journal of Pragmatics · 2010 · 335 citations · Full text

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Violations of information structure: An electrophysiological study of answers to wh-questions

Robert Kluender, M. Kutas, Maria Polinsky · Brain and Language · 2007 · 173 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. LA
    Laurie A. Stowe

    University of Groningen, Netherlands

    3 publications · 699 citations

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  2. JP
    John P. Rickards

    Purdue University West Lafayette, United States

    3 publications · 156 citations

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  3. RK
    Robert Kluender

    University of California San Diego, United States

    2 publications · 254 citations

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  4. TM
    Theodoros Marinis

    University of Reading, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 112 citations

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  5. LF
    Lyn Frazier

    University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States

    2 publications · 133 citations

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Institutions

53

  1. University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Amherst Center, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    296 citations

  2. University of Potsdam

    Potsdam, Germany

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    512 citations

  3. University of Reading

    Reading, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    112 citations

  4. University of Rochester

    Rochester, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    294 citations

  5. University of California San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    681 citations

  6. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    119 citations

  7. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    390 citations

  8. University of Massachusetts Boston

    Boston, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    62 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Educational Psychology

    5 publications · 252 citations

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  2. Language and Cognitive Processes

    4 publications · 1.7K citations

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  3. Lingua

    2 publications · 76 citations

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  4. Journal of Pragmatics

    2 publications · 385 citations

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  5. Journal of Memory and Language

    2 publications · 402 citations

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