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 ...
Anna Gavarró
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Assessing Intervention Effects in Sentence Processing: Object Relatives vs. Subject Control [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 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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Internal Grammar and Children's Grammatical Creativity against Poor Inputs [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 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 ...
Adriana Belletti, Adriana Belletti
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Adjoined XPs and relativized minimality: binominal "chacun"
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1995 -
Christine Tellier, Daniel Valoi
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Similarity of wh-phrases and acceptability variation in wh-islands [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 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.
Emily eAtkinson +3 more
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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
Elena Pettenon, Emanuela Sanfelici
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Intervention Effects and Relativized Minimality: New Experimental Evidence From Graded Judgments
Lingua, 2016 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.
Julie Franck +2 more
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Deriving the Complementarity Effect: Relativized Minimality in Breton Agreement
Lingua, 2006 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.
Jouitteau, Mélanie, Rezac, Milan
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Comprehension of double-center embedded relatives in Italian: a case for hierarchical intervention
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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Locality and Intervention in the Acquisition of Greek Relative Clauses
Languages, 2022 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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