A myth about centre-embedding
LinguaPublished 1 November 1982
Anne De Roeck, Roderick Johnson, Margaret King, Michael Rosner, Geoffrey Sampson, Nino Varile
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Abstract
Reflexions methodologiques sur les problemes d'acceptabilite des phrases a enchâssements multiples et leur statut dans les modeles de langues naturelles.
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