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Showing 1 to 20 of 188 for “"WH"”.
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The Syntax and Semantics of Korean Wh-Quantification: Wh-NPIs and Wh-In-Situ
… of long-distance dependency involved in Korean wh-Negative Polarity Items (NPIs). Korean wh-NPIs consist of a wh-item and a focus particle <em>-to</em> meaning `also' or `even'. In all reported cases, the wh-item and <em>-to</em> appear adjacent to each other. However, the wh-item and …
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Unifying Optional Wh-movement
… forward a theory that attempts to unify optional wh-movement within the Minimalist framework. Optionality is generally problematic for a theory ofMinimalist syntax: movement, when motivated, must occur. This thesis argues that having a wh-movement language does not strictly entail that wh-phrases …
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On the typology of wh-questions
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1991.
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Discourse-Conditioned Wh-Placement in Natural Language
… investigation of discourse-conditioned wh-placement in natural languages, focusing on wh-ex-situ in wh-in-situ languages (Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Turkish) and wh-in-situ in wh-movement languages (Greek, Italian, French, Spanish). Standing at the interface of syntax …
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Cyclicity and the scope of wh-phrases
… quantifier, syntactic reconstruction of the wh-phrase below the quantifier is the source of scope ambiguities. In particular, I argue, based on the interaction of PL-readings with binding conditions A and B, that syntactic reconstruction of the wh-phrase below the quantifier is necessary for …
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The grammar of Q : Q-particles and the nature of Wh-fronting, as revealed by the Wh-questions of Tlingit
… for a variety of phenomena surrounding wh-operators is not those operators themselves, but rather a distinct element that we label a 'Q(uestion)-particle'. In many languages, the Q-particle is phonologically empty, and so its role in various phenomena has not yet been recognized. Most …
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Wh-Question Processing in Children with Cochlear Implants
… difficulty accurately answering and producing wh-questions. The syntactic construction of wh-questions include syntactic movement, whereby the wh-question phrase that replaces the subject or object noun is fronted to the beginning of the sentence. This leaves a syntactic gap at the subject or …
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The (in)distinction between wh-movement and c-selection
This thesis asks the following question: what can wh-movement teach us about verb phrase structure? I examine two apparent interactions between wh-movement and Voice: Mayan Agent Focus and the Double Object Movement Asymmetry (DOMA) (Holmberg et al., 2019). In certain Mayan languages, subject but …
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The acquisition of complex wh- questions in the L2 English of Canadian French and Bulgarian speakers: Medial wh-constructions, inversion phenomena, and avoidance strategies
… examines the development of long-distance wh- movement questions in the L2 English of (Canadian) French and Bulgarian speakers. The main phenomenon under investigation is medial wh- constructions (wh- scope marking and wh- copying). Such constructions are of particular interest because they …
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Scope theory revisited : lessons from pied-piping in wh-questions
… argues that a closer study of pied-piping in wh-questions reveals the true power of already-existing tools in grammar. Building on the important insight that more complex scope-takers can be recursively built (Dayal, 1994; Charlow, 2017), I advance the idea that grammar makes crucial use of …
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The impact of WH/TS codes in implementing incoherent OCDMA system
… (OCDMA) is an advanced multiplexing scheme which provides a more efficient and fairer division of available bandwidth among users in comparison to other techniques such as wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) and optical time division multiplexing (OTDM). As a result, OCDMA has become a …
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All about alles: The syntax of wh-quantifier float in German
This thesis offers an in-depth investigation of “wh-quantifier float” of the quantifying particle ‘alles’ in German. 'Alles' (etymologically, ‘all’) appears in wh-questions like 'Wen alles hat die Mare eingeladen?' (‘Who-all did Mare invite?’). The thesis focuses on the syntactic distribution of …
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Online Processing of Wh-Dependencies in English by Native Speakers of Spanish
… learners of English are capable of processing wh-dependencies incrementally and observing the grammatical constraints that regulate wh-extraction in English, similar to native speakers. The study included two self-paced reading experiments run in a word-by-word non-cumulative moving window …
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Spanish-Speaking Learners' Acquisition of English VPE and WH-Extraction Out of VPE
… second language (L2) acquisition issues: whether and to what extent the L2 learner's first language (L1) and Universal Grammar (UG) respectively play a role in L2 development. Targeting English verb phrase ellipsis (VPE) and wh-extraction out of VPE, four acceptability judgment tasks (AJT) …
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HUU-FA THESIS DAT?: A Syntactic Analysis of Possessive Jamaican Creole Possessive WH-elements
… Twi, therefore it is reasonable to check whether the features of JC were derived from these languages. The distribution of huu-fa and fi-huu resembles the distribution of English whose. Fi-huu and huu-fa are WH-elements that show possession, similar to the English word whose. They are made …
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The application of SOA for dispersion management of 2D-WH/TS codesin incoherent OCDMA system
… approach in future data network end-points where the advantages of ultra-high speed optical communication bandwidth are at present disrupted due to opto-electronic conversions commonly known as 'electronic bottlenecks'.
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Second language processing of wh-movement in English : the effects of first language and learning environment
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, 2010
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The Higgs boson in the Standard Model : theoretical constraints and a direct search in the WH channel at the Tevatron
… x (rapport d'embranchement) dans le canal WH de 0,533 pb à une masse de 115 GeV à 95 pour cent niveau de confiance. Cette limite correspond à un facteur de 4,1 de la prédiction SM. D'autres limites sont calculées pour les masses dans une gamme de 100 à 150 GeV par pas de 5 GeV. Ces …
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What Happens to the Where, When and How in Malay?
In this thesis, I analyze three positions of the wh-word in Malay and attempt to explain what accounts for the differences between them. Specifically, I consider if the movement of the wh-interrogative is really wh-movement or if something else is going on. In regard to the the in-situ wh-words and …
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Intonation and interface conditions
… syntactic phenomena-especially those involving wh-questions-in Japanese. A phonological mechanism of FIP formation is proposed that accounts for the variety of FIPs observed in various syntactic configurations. In the FIPs of Japanese wh-questions, the F0 of wh-phrases is raised, and the F0 of …
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