Amnestying superiority violations: Processing multiple questions

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 51-68

  Clifton Jr , Charles ^a   Fanselow, Gisbert ^b   Frazier, Lyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acceptability judgments; Additional wh effect; Multiple questions; Superiority

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645760674     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/002438906775321139     Document Type: Review

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