Processing elided verb phrases with flawed antecedents: The recycling hypothesis

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 232-246

  Arregui, Ana ^a   Clifton Jr , Charles ^b   Frazier, Lyn ^b   Moulton, Keir ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Ellipsis; Sentence acceptability; Sentence comprehension; Ungrammaticality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745837063     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2006.02.005     Document Type: Article

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