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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"head final"”.
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(Negative) concord and head directionality in Western Armenian
… involved. Negative morphemes, complementizer heads, and additive markers are optional in Western Armenian. These concord structures bring about some issues regarding head directionality. Western Armenian is a generally head-final language. Certain domains exhibit both head-initial and …
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Prosody in Kichwa
… the hypothesis that Salasaka Kichwa exhibits a head-final syntactic structure. This default prosodic alignment is disrupted by the presence of focus-sensitive or interrogative morphemes such as -mi and -chu, which reliably attract the pitch peak regardless of their position in the clause. In …
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Comprehending Mandarin Relative Clauses: Ambiguity, Locality and Expectation
… clause processing (Experiments 4 and 5). The final experiment (Experiment 5) investigated the role of locality in Mandarin sentence processing. Long-distance dependencies between words in a sentence usually become more difficult when the distance increases. This is called a locality effect and …
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Relative clause processing in Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese
… investigates the locality preference in this head-final language. Finally, in Chapter 4, it will be suggested that ambiguities in relative clause attachment are not only well suited to investigate cross-linguistic phenomena but also various properties of the human parser that lie beyond the …
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Udmurt as an OV language
… proposes that the structure of a sentence with a head-final VP is fundamentally different from that of a sentence with a head-initial VP, e.g., OV languages do not exhibit a VP-shell structure, and they do not employ a TP layer with a structural subject position. Haider's proposed structural …
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Chinese sentence-final particles and their behaviours in English speakers' L2 Chinese
… study investigates how seven Chinese sentence-final particles (SFP le, ne1, ma, ne2, ba1, ba2 and a; hereafter SFP) and their features are represented in English speakers’ L2 Chinese. In this research, SFPs are analysed as heads instantiating different positions in the CP domain (Paul 2009, …
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Agreement in the context of coordination: Hindi as a case study
… Conjunct Agreement, especially looking at head initial languages, may be to assume that the structure of coordination plays a role in Closest Conjunct Agreement. Using the data from head final languages (mainly Hindi), I have shown that the structure of coordination is not involved in the …
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Morphosyntactic variation and contact: A comparative view from Daco-Romance
… assuming that Latin spoken in Dacia had strong head-initial tendencies, similarly to what happened across the Balkans, while the rest of late Latin/early Romance speaking territories were still oscillating between a head-final and a head-initial syntax, although even in the case of the latter …
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Processing of canonical and scrambled word orders in native and non-native Korean
… sentence processing strategies. By testing a head-final language (Korean) with relatively free word order, this study also examines whether and how scrambling (switching word order between subject and object of a transitive verb) affects L1 as well as L2 sentence processing (Miyamoto & …
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The acquisition of Mandarin by heritage speakers and second language learners
… L2ers are hypothesized to have acquired Mandarin head-final relative clauses given that word order is relatively easy for L2ers, despite different headedness in English. However, L2ers may have difficulty with tone 3 sandhi because phonology is known to be difficult for them (e.g., Granena & Long, …
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Interpretation and processing of overt pronouns in Korean, English and L2-acquisition
… general sentence processing model available to a head-final language.