The design and analysis of small-scale syntactic judgment experiments

Lingua

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 425-444

  Myers, James ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chinese; Experimental syntax; Methodology; Quantitative linguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 59149092914     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2008.09.003     Document Type: Article

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