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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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Wh-Islands in L2 Spanish and L2 English: Between Poverty of the Stimulus and Data Assessment [PDF]
Fontes Linguae Vasconum, 2018 This paper sheds light on the acquisition of wh-islands in L2 English spoken by native speakers of Spanish and L2 Spanish spoken by native speakers of English as well as on the distribution of wh-islands in L1 Spanish. A grammaticality judgment task with
Iván Ortega-Santos +2 more
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Island-sensitivity of two different interpretations of why in Chinese [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 It has been assumed that the wh-element weishenme “why” in Chinese has two distinct interpretations: a reason reading, which typically yields yinwei “because”-answers, and a purpose reading, which typically triggers weile “in order to”-answers.
Nayoun Kim, Ziying Li, Jiayi Lu
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Wh-islands in degree questions: A semantic approach
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2011 It is proposed that wh-islands with degree questions are unacceptable because they cannot be given a most informative true answer. Wh-islands thus are shown to be similar to other cases of weak islands which have been argued to result from Maximization ...
Márta Abrusán
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A Neurophysiological Investigation of Wh-Islands [PDF]
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1990 Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1990), pp.
Kluender, Robert
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GlossaAccording to the historical empirical consensus in the field, wh-argument extraction from embedded wh-questions gives rise to island effects in English, but not in Spanish.
Claudia Pañeda +3 more
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The Learnability of the Wh-Island Constraint in Dutch by a Long Short-Term Memory Network [PDF]
, 2023 The current study investigates whether a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network can learn the wh-island constraint in Dutch in a way comparable to human native speakers.
de Swart, Peter +2 more
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Wh-Islands: A View from Correspondence Theory
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2007 This paper discusses a family of restrictions on syntactic extraction, so-called wh-islands. The analysis will be based on the OT syntax model developed in Vogel (2004a,b) which focuses on the correspondence between semantic, syntactic and phonological representations, in the spirit of work by Jackendoff (199&), Williams (2003) and Culicover & ...
Villata, Sandra +4 more
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The island/non-island distinction in long-distance extraction: Evidence from L2 acceptability
Glossa, 2022 Experimental studies regularly find that extraction out of an embedded clause (“long-distance extraction”) results in a substantial degradation in acceptability but that the degradation is much greater when the embedded clause is an island structure.
Boyoung Kim, Grant Goodall
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A-bar Dependency, Wh-scrambling in Korean, and Referential Hierarchy
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1996 There is an argument-adjunct asymmetry in wh-extractions from weak islands. Some previous approaches to the issue concur that the reason why argument wh-phrases may create long distance A' dependencies across the islands is due to their referential ...
Lee, Gunsoo
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