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| Title |
Similarity of wh-Phrases and Acceptability Variation in wh-Islands
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2016
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.02048 |
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| Authors |
Emily Atkinson, Aaron Apple, Kyle Rawlins, Akira Omaki |
| Abstract |
In wh-questions that form a syntactic dependency between the fronted wh-phrase and its thematic position, acceptability is severely degraded when the dependency crosses another wh-phrase. It is well known that the acceptability degradation in wh-island violation ameliorates in certain contexts, but the source of this variation remains poorly understood. In the syntax literature, an influential theory - Featural Relativized Minimality - has argued that the wh-island effect is modulated exclusively by the distinctness of morpho-syntactic features in the two wh-phrases, but psycholinguistic theories of memory encoding and retrieval mechanisms predict that semantic properties of wh-phrases should also contribute to wh-island amelioration. We report four acceptability judgment experiments that systematically investigate the role of morpho-syntactic and semantic features in wh-island violations. The results indicate that the distribution of wh-island amelioration is best explained by an account that incorporates the distinctness of morpho-syntactic features as well as the semantic denotation of the wh-phrases. We argue that an integration of syntactic theories and perspectives from psycholinguistics can enrich our understanding of acceptability variation in wh-dependencies. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Iceland | 1 | 50% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 32 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 25% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 4 | 13% |
| Lecturer | 3 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 6% |
| Other | 6 | 19% |
| Unknown | 5 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Linguistics | 20 | 63% |
| Psychology | 2 | 6% |
| Arts and Humanities | 1 | 3% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 3% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 7 | 22% |
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