Gradience in linguistic data

Lingua

Volumn 115, Issue 11 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 1497-1524

  Sorace, Antonella ^a   Keller, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gradience; Grammaticality; Linguistic data; Magnitude estimation; Optimality Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 15544390851     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2004.07.002     Document Type: Article

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