Late assignment of syntax theory : evidence from Chinese and English

The attraction of the well-structured arguments of the mental syntactic processing device (parser) in Chomsky’s theory has led to an overemphasis on syntactic processing to the exclusion of semantic and other processing in the initial sentence processing stage (Frazier & Clifton, 1996; Gibson &a...

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Main Author: Shen, Xingjia
Other Authors: Mitchell, Don
Published: University of Exeter 2006
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.438738