Mental representations formed from words or phrases may vary considerably in their feature-
based complexity. Modern theories of retrieval in sentence comprehension do not indicate …

Judgments of linguistic unacceptability may theoretically arise from either grammatical
deviance or significant processing difficulty. Acceptability data are thus naturally ambiguous …

The Radical Unacceptability Hypothesis (RUH) has been proposed as a way of explaining
the unacceptability of extraction from islands and frozen structures. This hypothesis explicitly …

The aim of this thesis is two-fold: to develop an articulated Vietnamese clause structure in
two syntactic domains: VP-external and VP-internal in the spirit of generative grammar, and …

Typology has a low profile in much of American linguistics, especially outside of phonology
(Nichols 2007, Hyman 2007, Van Valin 2007). Yet, as I will suggest, the study of the results …

This dissertation investigates the prosodic marking of the semantic scope of wh-phrases in
Tokyo Japanese (TJ), Fukuoka Japanese (FJ) and South Kyeongsang Korean (SKK). While …

This article explores the effect of discourse context and prosody on the resolution of wh-
scope ambiguity in Tokyo Japanese, Fukuoka Japanese, and South Kyŏngsang Korean. It …

We argue in this paper that 'freezing'phenomena do not reflect grammatical constraints, but
rather processing complexity. We extend this result to the radical hypothesis that in general …

A recent trend has been to seek explanations for movement constraints not in the syntactic
configuration, but in processing complexity (Kluender 1991, 1992; Kluender and Kutas …

At least since Kuno & Robinson 1972, it has been widely assumed within generative
discussions that contrasts like (1a) vs.(1b) are to be explained by principles of grammar …