Resolving syntactic category ambiguities in discourse context: Probabilistic and discourse constraints

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 588-615

  Boland, Julie E ^a  

^a 137 Townshend Hall ^*  (United States)

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EID: 0031142030     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.1997.2494     Document Type: Article

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