The processing foundation of head-final relative clauses

Language and Linguistics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 813-838

  Lin, Chien Jer Charles ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chinese; Head final structures; Relative clauses; Sentence comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 69849126379     PISSN: 1606822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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