Parsing in a Dynamical System: An Attractor-based Account of the Interaction of Lexical and Structural Constraints in Sentence Processing

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 12, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 211-271

  Tabor, Whitney ^a   Juliano, Cornell ^a   Tanenhaus, Michael K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

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EID: 0031486856     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/016909697386853     Document Type: Article

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