Reaching agreement

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1033-1069

  Bock, Kathryn ^a   Middleton, Erica L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b MOSS REHABILITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agreement attraction; Language production; Number agreement; Psycholinguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 82655187147     PISSN: 0167806X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11049-011-9148-y     Document Type: Article

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