The Cross-linguistic study of sentence production

Linguistics and Language Compass

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 866-887

  Jaeger, T Florian ^a   Norcliffe, Elisabeth J ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 73649118864     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1749818X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2009.00147.x     Document Type: Article

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