Acquisition of superiority effects in multiple wh-questions
, 2023 In this study, we ask when English-acquiring children begin to understand multiple wh-questions such as (1). We probe this using children’s sensitivity to a constraint on multiple question formation known as the superiority effect.
Keely New +2 more
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The Intonation Patterns of Interrogatives in Persian
Linguistic Discovery, 2011 This paper investigates the intonational properties of different types of interrogatives in Persian in the framework of the autosegmental-metrical theory of intonation.
Nima Sadat-Tehrani
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The structure of Comp in Slavic: some evidence from Slovac
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1991 Several phenomena concerning multiple questions suggest that Slavic languages can be split in two groups. Rudin (1988) under the GB-framework, distinguishes those groups by means of a condition saying that multiple adjunction to the Spec of CP is not ...
Luis A. Sáez
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Movement in Syntactic Edges and Cyclic Linearization Approache : Evidence from Scrambling in Kalhuri Kurdish [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2019 Movement is one of the basic properties of human languages. Studying and accounting different movements is one of the main concerns in generative linguistics. One of the movements which attracts the interest of many linguists is Scrambling. Scrambling is
Shoja Tafakkori Rezaee +1 more
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The North Samoyedic interrogative verb meaning ‘say what’
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2020 A cross-linguistically rare interrogative category (i.e., an interrogative verb with the meaning ‘say what’) is observed in the North Samoyedic (Uralic) languages.
Nikolett Mus
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Recasting the typology of multiple wh-fronting: Evidence from Pontic Greek
Glossa, 2016 In this paper we revisit and revise the typology of multiple questions and multiple wh-fronting (MWF) in the light of data from Romeyka, a Greek variety spoken in Pontus, Turkey, and from another Pontic Greek variety spoken in northern Greece.
Dimitris Michelioudakis +1 more
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Interpretation of English multiple wh-questions by Japanese speakers: a missing uninterpretable feature account [PDF]
Second Language Research, 2006 In recent work by Tsimpli (2003) and Tsimpli and Dimitrakopoulou (to appear) an explicit claim is made about the nature of end-state grammars in older second language (L2) learners: uninterpretable syntactic features that have not been selected during first language (L1) acquisition ...
Hawkins, Roger, Hattori, Hajime
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Wh-questions in Japanese: scrambling, reconstruction, and wh-movement [PDF]
, 2002 In this article, I discuss some important properties of wh-questions and wh-scrambling in Japanese. The questions I will address are (i) which instances of (wh-) scrambling involve reconstruction and (ii) how the undoing effects of scrambling can be ...
Sabel, Joachim
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Accurate and noninvasive prostate cancer detection using plasma‐derived extracellular vesicle RNA
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Plasma extracellular vesicles were captured with WGA‐conjugated magnetic beads and profiled for RNA biomarkers. A three‐RNA panel (NM_024955, NR_047469, and NR_002564) distinguished prostate cancer from healthy controls and benign prostatic hyperplasia, supporting a simple, noninvasive approach to improve prostate cancer detection.
Hanping Wei, Haoran Wu, Wei Feng
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Prosody by phase : evidence from focus intonation–Wh-scope correspondence in Japanese [PDF]
, 2004 Japanese wh-questions always exhibit focus intonation (FI). Furthermore, the domain of FI exhibits a correspondence to the wh-scope. I propose that this phonology-semantics correspondence is a result of the cyclic computation of FI, which is explained ...
Ishihara, Shinichiro
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