Verb Agreement Processing in French: A Study of On-line Grammaticality Judgments

Language and Speech

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 25-46

  Kail, Michèle ^a   Bassano, Dominique ^a  

^a Lab Cogn et Developpement   (France)

Author keywords

French; Grammaticality judgments; On line sentence processing; Verb agreement

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038858227     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002383099704000102     Document Type: Article

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