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Involvement of the anterior insula and frontal operculum during wh-question comprehension of wh-in-situ Korean language. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
In this research, we employed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine the neurological basis for understanding wh-questions in wh-in-situ languages such as Korean, where wh-elements maintain their original positions instead of moving ...
Haeil Park, Jiseon Baik, Hae-Jeong Park
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Processing long-distance wh-dependency in the Kyengsang dialect of Korean: an ERP study [PDF]

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Kyengsang Dialect Korean (KDK) is a wh-in-situ language that morphologically distinguishes content (or wh-) and polar questions via sentence-final question particles (QPs).
Wonil Chung, Keonwoo Koo
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The periphery of vP in the theory of wh-in situ

Glossa, 2021
This article outlines an implementation of Cable’s (2010) Grammar of Q that considers the role played by the periphery of vP, hitherto unexplored in this framework. Empirically, I offer a new example, in a new language family, of a known manifestation of
Caterina Bonan
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French wh in-situ

Isogloss
This paper investigates the acceptability of wh in-situ expressions in embedded contexts in French. We report on two experiments that tested the acceptability of wh in-situ and ex-situ in embedded clauses of biclausal direct wh-questions and in indirect
Lena Baunaz, Giuliano Bocci, Ur Shlonsky
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Apparent wh-in-situ in Bellunese: Microparametric variation in the locus of subject clitic inversion

Glossa, 2020
The paper investigates wh-in-situ in Lamonat and Sovramontino, two understudied varieties of the Bellunese super-dialect area (Munaro 1998; 1999; Munaro et al. 2001; Poletto & Pollock 2004; 2009; 2015), from a new perspective, whereby patterns of non-
Simone De Cia
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N-words and Wh-in-situ in Spanish

Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1993
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Alfredo Arnaiz
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Acquiring Syntactic Variability: The Production of Wh-Questions in Children and Adults Speaking Akan

Frontiers in Communication, 2021
This paper investigates the predictions of the Derivational Complexity Hypothesis by studying the acquisition of wh-questions in 4- and 5-year-old Akan-speaking children in an experimental approach using an elicited production and an elicited imitation ...
Paul Okyere Omane, Barbara Höhle
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Activation levels

Isogloss, 2023
In the last five decades, French wh in-situ has been the center of much work in theoretical linguistics. Nonetheless, scholars still disagree on the distribution of these constructions, and on their interpretation.
Lena Baunaz, Caterina Bonan
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Towards a Typology of wh-Doubling in Northern Italian Dialects

Languages, 2023
In this work we examine the distribution of wh-in-situ and short (i.e., clause internal) wh-doubling in Northern Italian dialects with the purpose of showing that wh-in-situ and wh-doubling are not unitary phenomena, since they are subject to different ...
Nicola Munaro, Cecilia Poletto
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"Wh"-phrases and "wh"-in-situ in Late Archaic Chinese

Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2021
In this paper I explore wh-phrases and wh-in-situ in Late Archaic Chinese (LAC). Simplex and complex wh-phrases in LAC can be divided into eleven semantic categories.
Aiqing Wang
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