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  <Title>RIGHT ASSOCIATION REVISITED *</Title>
  <Section position="8" start_page="287" end_page="287" type="concl">
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6 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> I have argued that the apparent variability in the applicability of Right Association can be explained if we consider the heaviness of the constituents involved. I have demonstrated that in at least one written genre, light adverbials are rarely produced after heavy arguments precisely the configuration which causes the strongest RA-type effects. This demarcates a subset of attachment ambiguities where it is quite profitable to use RA as an approximation of the human sentence processor.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The work reported here considers only a subset of the attachment data in the corpus. The corpus itself represents a very narrow genre of written discourse. For the central claim to be valid, the findings must be replicated on a corpus of naturally occurring spontaneous speech.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> A rigorous account of heaviness is also required. These await further research.</Paragraph>
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