Barbosa, P and De Cat, C orcid.org/0000-0003-0044-0527 (2019) Intervention effects in wh-chains: the combined effect of syntax and processing. Glossa, 4 (1). 127. pp. 1-26. ISSN 2397-1835
Abstract
This study in experimental syntax investigates the factors affecting the acceptability of embedded clauses featuring a left-dislocated phrase below a fronted wh-phrase. Sixty native speakers of French took part in an on-line acceptability judgment task including 45 critical items (with an intervening XP) and 20 baseline items (including grammatical and ungrammatical sentences with an embedded wh-dependency). Using Random Forest and Ordinal Regression analyses we demonstrate that Clitic Left Dislocated (CLLD) objects yield stronger intervention effects (except when they are pronouns) than CLLDed subjects. We argue this is due to excessive processing demands incurred when a wh-dependency features a CLLD chain that is not fully within its scope. A processing account also explains why pronouns are not disruptive of wh-chains.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
Keywords: | clitic left dislocation, wh-movement, multiple A-bar dependencies, language processing |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > Linguistics & Phonetics (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 04 Oct 2019 13:01 |
Last Modified: | 21 Nov 2019 14:29 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Ubiquity Press |
Identification Number: | 10.5334/gjgl.1005 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:151765 |