[HTML][HTML] Generative linguistics:'Galilean style'

J Collins - Language Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Generative linguistics is often claimed by Chomsky to have a'Galilean style', which is
intended to position linguistics as a science continuous with standard practise in the natural …

Copredication as illusion

J Collins - Journal of Semantics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The paper will argue that copredications are semantically incoherent, and that their apparent
coherence is a species of illusion. If this claim is right, then the longstanding difficulty of …

The Comprehension of Headed and Headless Relative Clauses in Mandarin: Evidence from Monolingual and Mandarin-English Heritage Bilingual Children

S Zhang, V Tantucci, S Brandt - Language Learning and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
For head-initial languages like English, there is a strong consensus that subject relative
clauses (RCs) are acquired earlier and are processed more easily than object RCs …

The Missing VP Illusion in Spanish: Assessing the Role of Language Statistics and Working Memory

C Pañeda, S Lago - Open Mind, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Abstract In English, double center-embedded sentences yield a so-called “missing VP
illusion”: When they are ungrammatical due to a missing verb, they are judged as equally or …

Grammaticality illusion or ambiguous interpretation? Event-related potentials reveal the nature of the missing-NP effect in Mandarin centre-embedded structures

Q Yang, C Yang, Y Liao, Z Zhuang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.11282, 2024 - arxiv.org
In several languages, omitting a verb phrase (VP) in double centre-embedded structures
creates a grammaticality illusion. Similar illusion also exhibited in Mandarin missing-NP …

Je-Desto, Je-Umso: An Analysis of the German Comparative Correlative Construction

A Meinunger - Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 2023 - cambridge.org
This paper argues that German je-desto-sentences are regular verb-second structures.
Unlike left-dislocation (-like) structures (such as wenn-dann-clauses or free relative clause …

[图书][B] The Acquisition and Use of Mandarin Relative Clauses by Monolingual and Bilingual Children and Adults

S Zhang - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Children have been found to understand and use relative clauses (RCs) at an early age.
However, not all types of RCs are acquired at the same time, and are used with the same …

[PDF][PDF] Coordination of Unlike Categories Creates Grammaticality Illusion

N Kim, J Lu - 영어학, 2024 - journal.kasell.or.kr
KOREAN JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS Page 1 Korean Journal
of English Language and Linguistics, Vol 24, January 2024, pp. 52-61 DOI: 10.15738/kjell.24..202401.52 …

[PDF][PDF] Processing Turkish center-embeddings:| an investigation of case interference and prosodic phrase lengths

Ö Bakay - 2020 - drive.google.com
ÖZET Türkçede İç İçe Yerleşik Tümce Yapılarının İşlemlenmesi: Durum Eki Müdahalesi ve
Bürünsel Öbek Uzunluğunun Bir İncelemesi Bu çalışma Türkçede iç içe yerleşik tümce …

[PDF][PDF] Syntactic dependency formation in sentence processing: A comparative perspective

B Dillon, M Keshev - people.umass.edu
One central goal for our cognitive processes is to make sense of perceptual input. In
language comprehension, doing this requires activating long-term lexical and grammatical …