Generalizable distributional regularities aid fluent language processing: The case of semantic valence tendencies

Italian Journal of Linguistics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 129-156

  Onnis, Luca ^a   Farmer, Thomas A ^b   Baroni, Marco ^c   Christiansen, Morten H ^b   Spivey, Michael J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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