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Knowledge of grammar includes knowledge of syntactic probabilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2026

Susanne Gahl  and
Susan Garnsey
Susanne Gahl*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois
Susan Garnsey*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois
*
University of Chicago, Department of Psychology, 5848 S. University Ave., Chicago, IL 60637, [gahl@uchicago.edu], [sgarnsey@psych.uiuc.edu]
University of Chicago, Department of Psychology, 5848 S. University Ave., Chicago, IL 60637, [gahl@uchicago.edu], [sgarnsey@psych.uiuc.edu]
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Language , Volume 82 , Issue 2 , June 2006 , pp. 405 - 410
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Copyright © 2006 by Linguistic Society of America

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