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This chapter is an initial report of research in progress. It addresses a topic of considerable interest in recent psycholinguistics: the process by which humans locate Wh-traces in the course of word-by-word parsing of incoming sentences (Fodor, 1978; Stowe, 1986; Carlson and Tanenhaus, 1988; Clifton and Frazier, 1989).
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Kurtzman, H.S., Crawford, L.F., Nychis-Florence, C. (1991). Locating Wh-Traces. In: Berwick, R.C., Abney, S.P., Tenny, C. (eds) Principle-Based Parsing. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 44. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3474-3_13
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