Title of Document: COMMITMENT AND FLEXIBILITY IN THE DEVELOPING PARSER Akira Omaki, Doctor of Philosophy, 2010 Directed By: Professor Colin Phillips, Department of Linguistics This dissertation investigates adults and children’s sentence processing mechanisms, with a special focus on how multiple levels of linguistic representation are incrementally computed in real time, and how this process a...

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...

English main-clause wh-questions form complementiser phrases with wh-words preposed to spec-C position. This is because English wh-words, as verb-complements originally, are strong enough to trigger wh-movement and auxiliary inversion. Persian EFL learners encounter an over-differentiation problem regarding the acquisition of auxiliary inversion rule in English standard questions. Once they hav...

This research is case study which was designed to investigate the acquisition of WH-question byPersian and English speaking children between 2 to 4 years old. Four girls and their input wereprecisely analyzed in order to figure how WH-questions are effective in their speaking in theirdaily lives. In the current study the subjects were randomly selected and the matter of gender wasnot considered...

This paper describes a general metarule treatment of English whconstructions (relative clauses, and questions ) in the context of a broad -coverage logic grammar that also includes an extensive metarule treatment of co-ordinate conjunction . ' Vh-constructions pose difficulties for parsing , due to their introduction of a dependency between the wh-word (e.g., which ) and a corresponding gap in ...

Objectives: Studies have shown that most children before the age of 5 are capable to comprehend and express wh-questions in daily conversations. This study aimed at comparing the ability of wh-questions’ production in 4- to 6-year-old children in spontaneous and elicited conditions. Methods: In this descriptive-analytic study, 4- to 6-year-old Persian-speaking children (N = 72) were selected r...

Such WH-less WH-Questions (let us call them WLWQs) are very often used as questions in written tests or uttered by quizmasters in quizzes, though not often in daily conversations. 2 I assume that, despite their restriction in the range of registers, WLWQs are also constrained by the knowledge of human language. To my knowledge, there has been no previous research on WLWQs in the field. This pap...

BACKGROUND: Application of plant mulches plays a significant role in development and expansion of sustainable farming systems. OBJECTIVES: Assessment effect of chemical and non-chemical weeds management methods on weeds density and biomass and the properties of soil, including microbial biomass carbon (MBC) and soil organic carbon (SOC) in potato cultivation. ...