The subject-relative advantage in Chinese: Evidence for expectation-based processing
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Dept. of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany Dept. of Modern Languages and Cultures, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA c School of Foreign Languages, Dalian University of Technology, China Dept. of Communicative Disorders, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Bloomington, USA f School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sheffield, UK
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