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On the adequacy of the Competition Model

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The crosslinguistic study of sentence processing. Edited By BrianMacWhinney and ElizabethBates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xviii, 489. Cloth $37.50.

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Edward Gibson
Edward Gibson*
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Carnegie Mellon University
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Computational Linguistics Program, Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
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Language , Volume 68 , Issue 4 , December 1992, pp. 812 - 830
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Copyright © 1992 by Linguistic Society of America

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This article was written during 1991-1992 while the author was at MIT in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the McDonnell-Pew Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. My thanks to the following people for their comments on earlier drafts: Sergey Avrutin, Bob Carpenter, Stephen Crain, Dan Everett, Paul Gorrell, Howard Kurtz- man, Gary Marcus, Neal Pearlmutter, Steve Pinker, David Poeppel, Sandeep Prasada, Brad Pritchett, Gregg Solomon, Sally Thomason, William Snyder, and Ken Wexler. All remaining errors are my own.

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