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Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2016 Animal vocalizations contain distinct elements, but it is not clear whether they convey combined meanings in the same way as human speech. Here, Suzuki et al.show that Japanese great tits can combine different elements of vocal signals so that they have ...
Toshitaka N. Suzuki +2 more
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Continuous Acceptability, Categorical Grammaticality, and Experimental Syntax
Biolinguistics, 2007 Jon Sprouse
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On the position of subjects in Spanish: Evidence from code-switching
Glossa, 2021 Some languages have a fixed subject position, while others are more flexible. Languages like English require pre-verbal subjects; languages like Spanish allow subjects in postverbal position.
Bradley Hoot, Shane Ebert
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High aspect in the English be going to construction: Syntactic evidence
Glossa, 2022 Research into the syntax of English be going to has typically focused on how going to relates to gonna, but work has tended to focus less on the location and structure of the construction within the clausal spine.
Daniel Duncan
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Languages, 2022 In the first two decades following Ross’s Constraints on Variables in Syntax, a picture emerged in which the Mainland Scandinavian (MS) languages appeared to systematically evade some of the locality constraints proposed by Ross, including the relative ...
Jake W. Vincent +2 more
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Comparing Island Effects for Different Dependency Types in Norwegian
Languages, 2022 Recent research suggests that island effects may vary as a function of dependency type, potentially challenging accounts that treat island effects as reflecting uniform constraints on all filler-gap dependency formation.
Anastasia Kobzeva +5 more
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Zero-derivation in Korean: the effect of covert structure in real-time processing
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Korean words like balgda ‘bright/become bright’ and gilda ‘long/become long’ are categorially ambiguous; they can appear as both adjectives and verbs. Some suggest that these words are listed under separate lexical entries, while others propose that they
Nayoun Kim +3 more
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The effect of three basic task features on the sensitivity of acceptability judgment tasks
Glossa, 2020 Sprouse and Almeida (2017) provide a first systematic investigation of the sensitivity of four acceptability judgment tasks. In this project, we build on these results by decomposing those tasks into three constituent task features (single versus joint ...
Emmanuel Chemla, Jon Sprouse, Paul Marty
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Island-sensitivity of two different interpretations of why in Chinese
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 It has been assumed that the wh-element weishenme “why” in Chinese has two distinct interpretations: a reason reading, which typically yields yinwei “because”-answers, and a purpose reading, which typically triggers weile “in order to”-answers.
Nayoun Kim, Ziying Li, Jiayi Lu
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Unlike adjunct wh’s-in-situ, argument wh’s-in-situ do not seem to be subject to island constraints in Chinese and other East Asian languages. This difference in island sensitivity between argument and adjunct wh’s-in-situ is known as argument–adjunct ...
Qilin Tian +2 more
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