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Involvement of the anterior insula and frontal operculum during wh-question comprehension of wh-in-situ Korean language. [PDF]
PLoS ONEIn 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 NeuroscienceKyengsang 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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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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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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"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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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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From northern Italian to Asian wh-in situ: A theory of low focus movement
Isogloss, 2021 The mainstream literature on the Romance dialects of northern Italy has explained the morphosyntax of clause-internal wh-elements in answer-seeking interrogatives as either the result of interrogative movement into the lower portion of the high left ...
Caterina Bonan
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Edge Features and Multiple Wh-Questions
Cadernos de Linguística, 2021 Building on Chomsky’s (2000) proposal that A’-movement is triggered by an EPP-type of feature added to phase heads and Bošković’s (2007) proposal that the relevant feature is to be found on the moving element itself, Nunes (2020) has argued that these ...
Jairo Nunes
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Prosody, clause typing, and wh-in-situ: Evidence from Mandarin
Laboratory Phonology, 2020 This paper examines the use of prosody for marking upcoming linguistic material in speech production and for anticipating them in speech perception. More specifically, it examines whether in the absence of any overt morphosyntactic cues in the beginning ...
Jenny Doetjes +3 more
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The Distribution of Wh-word in Single Wh-Questions in Persian [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2019 By investigating the distribution of wh-word insingle Wh-questions in Persian through a qualitative method in terms of the theory of Derivational Approach (Epstein et al., 1998) and Feature-Free Syntax (Boeckx, 2015) we intend to explain why wh-word is ...
Ahmadreza Sharifipur shirazi +1 more
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