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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 10.
Published in final edited form as: Cognition. 2011 Oct 27;122(1):10.1016/j.cognition.2011.07.012. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.07.012

Table 11.

Relative frequency in parsed Brown corpus of RC postmodifier for various types of premodifying structure. Totals include both extraposed and unextraposed RCs.

Premodifier Proportion RC postmodification n
a/an 8.8% 10071
the 7.8% 22193
only 24.6% 313
the only 64.9% 74
only those 100% 1