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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"island constraints"”.
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On the nature of island constraints.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Thesis. 1973. Ph.D.
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Grammatical constraints in second language sentence processing
… by examining L2 learners’ sensitivity to ‘island constraints’ (Ross, 1976) in the course of online processing of long-distance wh-dependencies, using plausibility judgments and eye-movement monitoring techniques. In Experiment 1, a stop-making-sense task was conducted to investigate L2 …
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The Role of Individual Differences in the Acceptability of Island Violations in Native and Non-native Speakers
This study examines the acquisition of syntactic island constraints on wh-movement in English by native speakers of Najdi Arabic to test whether it is possible for second language learners (L2) to acquire syntactic constraints that are not present in their first language (L1). According to the Full …
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Multiple dominance and interface operations
… restriction on right-node raising and selective island effects in A'-movement. I develop a linearization algorithm which is locally sensitive to complete dominance, and show how, when applied to right-node raising structures, it predicts the right-edge effect. I also explore how, following …
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Online Processing of Wh-Dependencies in English by Native Speakers of Spanish
… 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 paradigm (Just et al., 1982). Experiment 1 tested if second …