Evidence against the use of subcategorisation frequency in the processing of unbounded dependencies

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 469-503

  Pickering, Martin J ^a   Traxler, Matthew J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING;

EID: 0042926812     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960344000017     Document Type: Article

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