Predicting syntax: Processing dative constructions in American and Australian varieties OF ENGLISH

Language

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 168-213

  Bresnan, Joan ^a   Ford, Marilyn ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corpus; Dative alternation; Mixed effect model; Probability; Psycholinguistics; Syntax; Variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951078234     PISSN: 00978507     EISSN: 15350665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lan.0.0189     Document Type: Article

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