Variation in agreement: A lexical feature-based approach

Lingua

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1109-1134

  Adger, David ^a   Smith, Jennifer ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agreement; Buckie; Features; Underspecification; Variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949875288     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2008.05.007     Document Type: Article

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