Locality, cyclicity, and resumption: At the interface between the grammar and the human sentence processor

Language

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 110-160

  Alexopoulou, Theodora ^a,c   Keller, Frank ^b  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LILLE   (France)

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EID: 41149090313     PISSN: 00978507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lan.2007.0001     Document Type: Article

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