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Original Articles

Influences of grammatical and stereotypical gender during reading: eye movements in pronominal and noun phrase anaphor resolution

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Pages 781-803 | Received 02 May 2012, Accepted 30 Mar 2013, Published online: 11 Jun 2013

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