When relative clause extraposition is the right choice, it’s easier
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Enriching a Treebank to Investigate Relative Clause Extraposition in German
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Language and Cognition
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1866-9808,1866-9859
DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2016.21