Parallelism and competition in syntactic ambiguity resolution

Linguistics and Language Compass

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 234-250

  Clifton Jr , Charles ^a   Staub, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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EID: 57749135795     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1749818X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-818x.2008.00055.x     Document Type: Review

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