Slower-than-normal syntactic processing in agrammatic Broca's aphasia: Evidence from Dutch

@article{Burkhardt2008SlowerthannormalSP,
  title={Slower-than-normal syntactic processing in agrammatic Broca's aphasia: Evidence from Dutch},
  author={Petra Burkhardt and Sergey Avrutin and Maria Mercedes Pi{\~n}ango and Esther Ruigendijk},
  journal={Journal of Neurolinguistics},
  year={2008},
  volume={21},
  pages={120-137}
}
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