Child Relativized Minimality and Grammaticality Judgement [PDF]
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 ...
Anna Gavarró
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Assessing Intervention Effects in Sentence Processing: Object Relatives vs. Subject Control [PDF]
Object relative clauses are harder to process than subject relative clauses. Under Grillo’s (2009) Generalized Minimality framework, complexity effects of object relatives are construed as intervention effects, which result from an interaction between ...
João Delgado +3 more
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Adjoined XPs and relativized minimality: binominal "chacun"
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Christine Tellier, Daniel Valoi
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Intervention effects and Relativized Minimality: New experimental evidence from graded judgments
According to Featural Relativized Minimality, the local relation between an extracted element and its trace is disrupted when it crosses an intervening element whose morphosyntactic featural specification matches the specification of the elements it separates.
Sandra Villata +2 more
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Deriving the Complementarity Effect: Relativized minimality in Breton agreement
Abstract Breton φ-agreement is characterized by the Complementarity Effect , which allows pro -dropped but not lexical DPs to control φ-agreement. We contrast verbal and prepositional systems: a lexical DP co-occurs with the root form of a preposition, but with a 3rd.sg. ( frozen agreement ) form of a verb.
Milan Rezac
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Comprehension of double-center embedded relatives in Italian: a case for hierarchical intervention
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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Locality and Intervention in the Acquisition of Greek Relative Clauses
According to the most recent formulation of Relativized Minimality, grammatical features are distinguished between those that are syntactically active and those that are not.
Nikos Angelopoulos +2 more
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On Relativized Minimality, memory and cue-based parsing [PDF]
Ortega-Santos, Iván
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French adverbial clauses: rescue by ellipsis and the truncation vs. intervention debate [PDF]
This paper investigates the restrictions on movement to the left periphery found in non-root environments such as French central adverbial clauses and argues that an analysis of main clause phenomena based on intervention/Relativized Minimality is to be ...
Authier, Jean-Marc, Haegeman, Liliane
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On the acquisition of Spanish psych predicates
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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