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This paper will report on an experiment where we investigated the processing of island constraints in French, in particular, constructions with the Complex NP constraint. We also examined an alternative explanation to gap-location results based on the notion of ‘potential end of the sentence’.
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Bourdages, J.S. (1992). Parsing Complex NPs in French. In: Goodluck, H., Rochemont, M. (eds) Island Constraints. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1980-3_3
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