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An fMRI study on the processing of long-distance wh-movement in a second language [PDF]
Glossa, 2017 Recent behavioural evidence from second language (L2) learners has suggested native-like processing of syntactic structures, such as long-distance wh-dependencies in L2. The underlying processes are still largely debated, while the available neuroimaging
Christos Pliatsikas +2 more
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Wh-Movement, Islands, and Resumption in L1 and L2 Spanish: Is (Un)Grammaticality the Relevant Property? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 This study reflects on the meaning of the results of a self-paced grammaticality judgment task that tested island configurations (with gaps and resumptive pronouns) in L1 and L2 speakers of Spanish.
Sílvia Perpiñán
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Neural Connectivity in Syntactic Movement Processing [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2019 Linguistic theory suggests non-canonical sentences subvert the dominant agent-verb-theme order in English via displacement of sentence constituents to argument (NP-movement) or non-argument positions (wh-movement).
Eduardo Europa +7 more
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Syntactic Constraints and Individual Differences in Native and Non-Native Processing of Wh-Movement. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2016 There is a debate as to whether second language (L2) learners show qualitatively similar processing profiles as native speakers or whether L2 learners are restricted in their ability to use syntactic information during online processing.
Johnson A, Fiorentino R, Gabriele A.
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Covert partial wh-movement and the nature of derivations
Glossa, 2016 Wh-movement is commonly thought to be caused by a syntactic probing operation, initiated by an interrogative probe on C, which triggers subsequent movement to the specifier of C.
Hadas Kotek
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International Journal of Linguistics, 2023 Changes in the word's position and the structure's construction are a system by which some words move from one position to another due to linguistic factors such as morphology and syntax.
S. Khudhur
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On wh-movement in Spanish Echo Questions
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2017 This paper examines Spanish echo questions, an understudied phenomenon even in extensively described languages such as English. In particular, it focuses on a very particular type of echo questions, such as those made in response to a previous yes/no ...
Ekaterina Chernova
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A Minimalist Analysis of Persian Restrictive Relative Clause Derivation [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2023 Within the Minimalist Program (MP), Relative clauses (RCs) are considered complementizer clauses (CPs) containing a C with an edge feature [EF] in the form of [wh] and [EPP] but no tense feature. This study investigates Persian RC derivation based on MP.
Abbas Ali Ahangar, Seyedeh Zohreh Aftabi
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PLoS ONE, 2023 The Mehri Language is an endangered language spoken in eastern Yemen, a sub-group of the Semitic language family, and a Southern Arabic language. The syntax of Mehri wh-questions has not been explored within minimalism; hence, there is a morpho-syntactic
Abdul-Hafeed Fakih +2 more
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Wh-question formation in Lokạạ
Journal of African Languages and Literatures, 2023 This paper discusses wh-questions in the Benue-Congo language, Lokạạ. The different strategies of wh-question formation are examined. It is observed that in addition to the ex-situ and in-situ strategies, the language allows partial wh-movement under ...
Mary Amaechi
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