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An Experimental Investigation of Multiple Sluicing in Mandarin Chinese

Languages, 2023
This paper examines multiple sluicing constructions in Mandarin Chinese (henceforth, MC) experimentally. The acceptability status of such constructions in MC is controversial, and the judgments reported in the previous literature vary.
Xue Bai, Alvaro Cortes Rodríguez
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Successive-cyclic movement in humans and neural language models: testing wh-filler-gap dependencies [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
This study investigates whether auto-regressive language models (GPT-2, GPT-Neo, OPT) replicate human-like sensitivity to covert intermediate phrasal structures (CP vs. NP) during the processing of wh-filler-gap dependencies.
Keonwoo Koo, Hyosik Kim
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Filling the silence: Reactivation, not reconstruction [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2016
In a self-paced reading experiment, we investigated the processing of sluicing constructions (`sluices') whose antecedent contained a known garden-path structure in German.
Dario Leander Jim Felix Paape
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Structure modulates similarity-based interference in sluicing: An eye tracking study. [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
In cue-based content-addressable approaches to memory, a target and its competitors are retrieved in parallel from memory via a fast, associative cue-matching procedure under a severely limited focus of attention. Such a parallel matching procedure could
Jesse A. Harris
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Processing of ellipsis with garden-path antecedents in French and German: Evidence from eye tracking. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
In a self-paced reading study on German sluicing, Paape (Paape, 2016) found that reading times were shorter at the ellipsis site when the antecedent was a temporarily ambiguous garden-path structure.
Dario Paape, Barbara Hemforth, Shravan Vasishth   +2 more
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Quoi-sluices in French

Glossa, 2022
Sluicing has traditionally been analyzed as an operation involving wh-movement and deletion (Merchant 2001). French is a language that has both fronted and wh-in situ strategies; on the surface, however, it seems that French sluices do not involve (overt)
Megan Gotowski
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Ellipsis in Spanish

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2023
This article presents a descriptive and analytical overview of potential ellipsis cases in Spanish. After highlighting the main complications that the notion of ellipsis brings up, this work presents a detailed summary of the main empirical properties ...
Antonio Fábregas
doaj   +1 more source

Resumption as a sluicing source in Saudi Arabic: Evidence from sluicing with prepositional phrases

Glossa, 2020
This paper reports the results of three acceptability judgment experiments on Saudi Arabic elliptical questions (sluicing) with prepositional phrases. We show that in standard cases of merger type sluicing and contrastive sluicing there is no penalty for
Klaus Abels, Yara Alshaalan
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Conjoined Multiple WH-Questions in Persian: Typo-syntactic analysis [PDF]

زبان پژوهی, 2019
This paper examines the typological aspects of coordinated WH-Questions in Persian language. Coordination is one of the syntactic operations that makes a compound or complex phrase or sentence.
Hengameh Vaezi, Yadgar Karimi
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Voice mismatches beyond passives : sluicing with active impersonal antecedents

Linguistica Brunensia, 2021
While ellipsis tolerates various kinds of mismatches, sluicing does not allow for a mismatch in active/passive voice between an ellipsis site and its antecedent.
Andrew Murphy
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