Unambiguous triggers

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-36

  Fodor, Janet Dean ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Ambiguity; Parameter setting; Parsing; Trigger

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346611164     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/002438998553644     Document Type: Article

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