The current study used headmounted eyetracking to examine the time course and nature of processing filler-gap relations in WH-questions, and the role of verb argument frame information. Subjects listened to a short narrative while viewing pictures of entities mentioned in the story. At the end of the story, they were required to answer an auditorily presented question; eye movements in response...

Long-distance dependencies have long been at the center of linguists’ attention, and have played an important role in the ongoing dialogue between theoreticians and experimentalists, who share an interest in the motivation for empty categories and in the nature of filler-gap relationships. In this paper, we address certain issues that arise with regard to Korean relative clauses from both a the...

In order to improve the acid-resistant property of papermaking grade precipitated calcium carbonate filler and to obtain modified filler in powder form, sodium silicate/zinc chloride based modifiers were used in filler modification, and the use of modified filler in papermaking of deinked pulp derived from recycled newspaper was also preliminarily investigated. Under the preliminarily optimized...

In natural languages, syntactic elements can, in principle, be linked across an unbounded distance, as exemplified by filler-gap dependencies (also known extractions or movement operations) [...]

The relationship between the wh -remnant and null correlate in type of ellipsis known as backward sprouting is superficially almost identical to relation a -filler gap -question. In both cases, there dependency -phrase later element. We conduct sentence acceptability experiment test whether remnant–correlate exhibits two well-known properties filler–gap -questions: sensitivity clause boundaries...

Different modification routes using fly ash-based calcium silicate (FACS) with starch/sodium stearate were explored to mitigate the negative effect of filler on paper strength and allow for improved filler content. The morphology of the modified fillers and the properties of the filled paper were investigated. The modification route was found to be critical to the amount of starch/sodium steara...

The microstructures and weldability of a brazed joint of 1Cr18Ni9Ti austenitic stainless steel with BNi-2, BNi82CrSiBFe and BMn50NiCuCrCo filler metals in vacuum were investigated. It can be observed that an interdiffusion region existed between the filler metal and the base metal for the brazed joint of Ni-based filler metals. The width of the interdiffusion region was about 10 μm, and the mic...

By employing an idealized model of a polymer network and filler, we have investigated the stress-strain behavior by tuning the filler loading and polymer-filler interaction in a broad range. The simulated results indicate that there actually exists an optimal filler volume fraction (between 23% and 32%) for elastomer reinforcement with attractive polymer-filler interaction. To realize this rein...