The dependency structure of coordinate phrases: A corpus approach

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 577-601

  Temperley, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordination; Corpus analysis; Dependency grammar; Syntactic complexity

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; REVIEW; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 29144512309     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-005-9165-2     Document Type: Review

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