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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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Experimental syntax and the variation of island effects in English and Italian [PDF]
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 2015 The goal of this article is to explore the utility of experimental syntax techniques in the investigation of syntactic variation. To that end, we applied the factorial definition of island effects made available by experimental syntax (e.g., Sprouse et al.
Jon Sprouse +2 more
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Continuous Acceptability, Categorical Grammaticality, and Experimental Syntax
Biolinguistics, 2007 Jon Sprouse
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Commentary: Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Steven Phillips +2 more
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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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Speed-accuracy trade-off modelling and its interface with experimental syntax [PDF]
, 2023 The chapter highlights key insights gained by using the speed-accuracy tradeoff (SAT) technique. SAT evidence has been instrumental in integrating sophisticated memory models into psycholinguistic theory, notably introducing content-addressable retrieval
Cunnings, Ian +2 more
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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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