Conflicting cues and competition between notional and grammatical factors in producing number and gender agreement: Evidence from Hebrew

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 112-143

  Deutsch, Avital ^a   Dank, Maya ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attraction errors; Number and gender agreement

Indexed keywords

EID: 56249144778     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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