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Formal vs. Processing Approaches to Syntactic Phenomena

Processing Chinese relative clauses in context

Edward Gibson Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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H.-H. Iris Wu Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
Pages 125-155 | Received 04 Feb 2010, Accepted 22 Oct 2010, Published online: 07 Mar 2011

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