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How Linguistic Exposure Modulates the Acceptability of Long-Distance Dependencies
… of a certain type of long-distance, so-called ‘filler-gap’ dependency: object-extracted wh-question islands. We take a two-pronged approach. First, we look into how long-term, lifetime exposure to various components of a sentence (estimated from corpora) impacts its acceptability. We find …
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L1 and L2 Processing of Filler-Gap Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese Speakers: Evidence from Self-Paced Reading Times and Event-Related Potentials
… apparent when the sentence structure includes filler-gap dependencies, a non-local syntactic structure requiring parsers to establish a connection between a displaced filler and its corresponding syntactic gap over distance (e.g., Marinis et al., 2005; Dong et al., 2023). The primary goal of …