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Formal vs. Processing Approaches to Syntactic Phenomena

The source ambiguity problem: Distinguishing the effects of grammar and processing on acceptability judgments

Philip Hofmeister Center for Research in Language, University of California–San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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T. Florian Jaeger Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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Inbal Arnon Department of Linguistics, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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Ivan A. Sag Department of Linguistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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Neal Snider Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA, USA
Pages 48-87 | Received 07 Dec 2009, Accepted 01 Mar 2011, Published online: 18 Oct 2011

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