Generalized Minimality: Feature impoverishment and comprehension deficits in agrammatism

Lingua

Volumn 119, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1426-1443

  Grillo, Nino ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agrammatic aphasia; Canonicity; Feature hierarchy; Locality; Passives; Relativized Minimality

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649119685     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2008.04.003     Document Type: Article

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