Reading the words her, his, him: Implications for parsing principles based on frequency and on structure

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 276-292

  Clifton Jr , Charles ^a   Kennison, Shelia M ^a   Albrecht, Jason E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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EID: 0031067638     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.1996.2499     Document Type: Article

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