Cross-linguistic evidence for memory storage costs in filler-gap dependencies with wh-adjuncts
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Cross-linguistic evidence for memory storage costs in filler-gap dependencies with wh-adjuncts
This study investigates processing of interrogative filler-gap dependencies in which the filler integration site or gap is not directly subcategorized by the verb. This is the case when the wh-filler is a structural adjunct such as how or when rather than subject or object. Two self-paced reading experiments in English and Slovenian provide converging cross-linguistic evidence that wh-adjuncts ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Psychology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01301