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Studying Processability Theory: An Introductory TextbookEdited by Manfred Pienemann and Jörg-U. Keßler
[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching 1] 2011
► pp. 25–48
Edited by Manfred Pienemann and Jörg-U. Keßler
[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching 1] 2011
► pp. 25–48
The psycholinguistic basis of PT
This chapter gives an overview of the psycholinguistic basis of Processability Theory (PT). This includes an outline of the key feature of language production, the processability hierarchy that follows from the architecture of the language processor and it formal description within Lexical-Functional Grammar. Also, the two key mechanisms driving PT are introduced: (1) feature unification and (2) linking arguments and constituents to functions.
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Nottbeck, Emilia
2019. Chapter 10. Modelling relative clauses in Processability Theory and Lexical-Functional Grammar. In Widening Contexts for Processability Theory [Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 7], ► pp. 231 ff. 
Pienemann, Manfred, Frank Lanze, Howard Nicholas & Anke Lenzing
2022. Chapter 3. Stabilization. In Second Language Acquisition Theory [Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 14], ► pp. 29 ff.
Rodríguez-Castro, Mónica & Concepción B. Godev
2024. Implicit agent se-constructions. Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics
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