Learning word-order constraints under conditions of object ellipsis

Linguistics

Volumn 38, Issue 367, 2000, Pages 545-568

  Demuth, Katherine ^a   Machobane, 'Malillo ^b   Moloi, Francina ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0039847873     PISSN: 00243949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ling.38.3.545     Document Type: Article

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