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I am grateful to the staff at the Max-Plank-Institut für Psycholinguistik for making it possible to carry out this investigation. Many people helped with this project by providing encouragement, technical assistance or making their facilities available. I especially wish to thank Pim Levelt, William Marslen-Wilson, Ino Flores d'Arcais, Antje Meyer, Johan Weustink (for programming assistance), Hans van Haandel (for collecting data) and Sylvia Aal (for typing the manuscript). I am particularly indebted to Pienie Zwitserlood, who turned my often awkward attempts at Dutch sentences into real colloquial Dutch, and to Uli Frauenfelder for all his help with data analysis. I also profited enormously from discussions of Dutch grammar with Emmon Bach, Jan Kooij, Jan Koster and Pieter Muysken. Finally I want to thank Chuck Cliften, Frank Heny, Josef Bayer, Elisabet Engdahl, Edwin Williams, and three anonymous reviewers for comments on an earlier draft of the manuscript. This work was carried out while I was supported by the Language Universals Project at M.P.I. and by grant HD18708.
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Frazier, L. Syntactic processing: Evidence from dutch. Nat Lang Linguist Theory 5, 519–559 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00138988
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