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  1. Linguistics Department, Graduate Center, CUNY, 33 West 42nd Street, 10036, New York, NY, USA

    Janet Dean Fodor & Stephen Crain

  2. Dept. of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, 06268, Storrs, Connecticut, USA

    Janet Dean Fodor & Stephen Crain

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We would like to thank Mark Baltin, David Perlmutter and Lisa Travis for helpful comments and advice on this paper. Errors are ours alone.

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Dean Fodor, J., Crain, S. Phrase structure parameters. Linguist Philos 13, 619–659 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00627510

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