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The present note discusses the possibility of developing a model for the production of
fragmentary utter
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n exploratory model for u
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places strict constraints on what forms fragmentary utterances can take. The model adopts
the view that fragmentary utterances are formed bottom-up (thereby keeping the involvement
of syntax inutterance production toa minimal) and posits sim
ple principles th
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predictions about what morphemes necessarily occur in a given (fragmentary) uttera
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latter half of this pap
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types (c
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