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, 2019 This paper argues that wh-islands are unacceptable because they cannot be given a complete (exhaustive) answer. In the case of degree questions, the complete answer expresses a contradiction given the assumption that degree questions range over intervals.
Abrusán, Márta
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Cognitive constraints and island effects [PDF]
, 2010 Competence-based theories of island effects play a central role in generative grammar, yet the graded nature of many syntactic islands has never been properly accounted for.
Ivan A. Sag,, Philip Hofmeister,
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Islands in the grammar? Standards of evidence [PDF]
, 2012 When considering how a complex system operates, the observable behavior depends upon both architectural properties of the system and the principles governing its operation.
Casasanto, Laura Staum +4 more
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VP-Ellipsis is not licensed by VP-Topicalization [PDF]
, 2012 Starting from the observation that the constraints on VP-ellipsis (VPE) closely match those on VP-topicalization (VPT), Johnson (2001) proposes a movement account for VPE: in order for a VP to be deleted, it must first undergo topicalization.
Aelbrecht, Lobke, Haegeman, Liliane
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The D-linking effect on extraction from islands and non-islands [PDF]
, 2015 D-linked wh-phrases such as 'which car' are known to increase the acceptability of sentences with island violations. One influential account of this attributes the effect to working memory: the D-linked filler is easier to retrieve at the site of the gap
Grant Goodall
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Intervention in tough-constructions revisited [PDF]
, 2017 In this paper, we subject to closer scrutiny one particularly influential recent argument in favour of the long-movement analysis of tough-constructions.
Keine, Stefan, Poole, Ethan
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The source ambiguity problem: Distinguishing the effects of grammar and processing on acceptability judgments [PDF]
, 2013 Judgments of linguistic unacceptability may theoretically arise from either grammatical deviance or significant processing difficulty. Acceptability data are thus naturally ambiguous in theories that explicitly distinguish formal and functional ...
Anderson J. R. +58 more
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What Syntactic Structures block Dependencies in RNN Language Models? [PDF]
, 2019 Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) trained on a language modeling task have been shown to acquire a number of non-local grammatical dependencies with some success.
Futrell, Richard +2 more
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Subjacency effects on overt wh-movement in wh-in-situ languages: Evidence for nominal structure [PDF]
, 2022 This paper investigates whether overt wh-movement in Korean, a wh-in-situ language, triggers Subjacency violations in the same set of bounding configurations as English. Yoon (2013) and Jung (2015) showed that Korean wh-islands display Subjacency effects,
Dubinsky, Stanley, Park, Keunhyung
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Changing the focus : an empirical study of "Focalizing ser" ('to be') in Dominican Spanish [PDF]
, 2015 This article examines the perception and production of the Focalizing Ser (FS) structure by Dominican speakers living in three urban communities: Santiago de los Caballeros, Sosúa, and Santo Domingo de Guzmán.
Méndez Vallejo, Dunia Catalina
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