Native and non-native processing of English wh- questions: Parsing strategies and plausibility constraints

Applied Psycholinguistics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 509-540

  Williams, John N ^a   Möbius, Peter ^b   Kim, Choonkyong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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EID: 0035643721     PISSN: 01427164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0142716401004027     Document Type: Article

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