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  <Title>LIMSI - Langues Naturelles</Title>
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2. PROCE55, FUNCTION OF STRUCTL~:
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    <Paragraph position="0"> It is a well known fact that students learning French have diffienlties in producing fluently sentences with 2 pronoun ccmploments such as: Dis-le moi V-OO-lO Tell me (tell me it) Ne le lui dis pas! neg-DO-lO-V-neg Don't tell him (that)! Ii te le donnora S-IO-DO-V He'll (.live it to you Ii le lui deonera S-DO-IO-V He'll give it to him Je te pr6sente ~ elle S-DO-V-prep-lO I'Ii pres~\]te you to her It is interesting to find out why these constructions are so difficult to learn and to process. We believe that there are three basic reasons for this: i) the structural idiesyneraeies oF the French system: mor~\]ology and syntax are interdep~ant; 2) the procedural implications of this structure: many morphemes have an embedded structure (see below); 3) the resource limitations of the l~mn processor: being a serial processor, the learnor can focus his attention on but one thing at a time.</Paragraph>
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