Child Relativized Minimality and Grammaticality Judgement [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Grammaticality judgements are the fundamental experimental source of generative linguistic theory. They may be difficult to elicit, especially in some populations, but generally they inform us neatly about what the grammar licenses or, on the contrary ...
Gavarró A.
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Comprehension of double-center embedded relatives in Italian: a case for hierarchical intervention [PDF]
Isogloss, 2023 Object relatives are more difficult to process than subject relatives. Several sentence processing models have been proposed to explain this difference.
Marco Sala +5 more
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On the acquisition of Spanish psych predicates [PDF]
Isogloss, 2022 Spanish psych verbs like gustar (‘like’/‘please’) have a non-agreeing dative experiencer that asymmetrically c-commands the agreeing nominative theme (e.g., Cuervo 2003). Intervention accounts (Friedmann et al.
Victoria Mateu
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Internal Grammar and Children's Grammatical Creativity against Poor Inputs. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2017 This article is about the unexpected linguistic behavior that young children sometimes display by producing structures that are only marginally present in the adult language in a constrained way, and that adults do not adopt in the same experimental ...
Belletti A.
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Similarity of wh-Phrases and Acceptability Variation in wh-Islands. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2015 In wh-questions that form a syntactic dependency between the fronted wh-phrase and its thematic position, acceptability is severely degraded when the dependency crosses another wh-phrase.
Atkinson E, Apple A, Rawlins K, Omaki A.
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Chinese Children's Knowledge of Topicalization: Experimental Evidence from a Comprehension Study. [PDF]
J Psycholinguist Res, 2018 There is a debate as to whether topic structures in Chinese involve A'-movement or result from base-generation of the topic in the left periphery. If Chinese topicalization was derived by movement, under the assumptions of Friedmann et al.'s Relativized ...
Hu S, Guasti MT, Gavarró A.
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Subject-object asymmetries in the processing of European Portuguese cleft structures [PDF]
IsoglossThis study investigates the intervention effects on the processing of standard clefts by adult speakers of European Portuguese, focusing on the semantic feature of animacy.
Xinyi Li, Maria Lobo, Joana Teixeira
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Featural Relativized Minimality in silence: the acquisition of sluicing in Italian
GlossaThis paper investigates the acquisition of elliptical indirect wh-questions, i.e. sluicing, by Italian preschool children. The goal is to determine whether the locality principle of featural Relativized Minimality (Rizzi 2013, 2018) applies independently
Victoria Mateu
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The Role of D-Linking and Lexical Restriction in Locality Violations [PDF]
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2023 The major contrast discussed in the literature to show an obviation of the wh-island effect often involves a bare wh- element in the role of the intervener (e.g. who) and a “complex” wh-phrase (e.g. which book) in the role of the moved item.
Cristiano Chesi +2 more
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intersection configurations and intervention in language acquisition [PDF]
, 2022 UIDB/03213/2020 UIDP/03213/2020Intervention effects have been explored in the domain of language acquisition, suggesting that feature similarity between a moved element and an intervening constituent determines the occurrence of processing difficulties.
Lobo, Maria +2 more
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