Predictability in French gender attribution: A corpus analysis

Journal of French Language Studies

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 69-92

  Lyster, Roy ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 43249149675     PISSN: 09592695     EISSN: 14740079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959269506002304     Document Type: Article

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