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1	A verb-frame frequency account of constraints on long-distance dependencies in English
	Liu, Yingtong; Ryskin, Rachel; Futrell, Richard...
	In: Prof. Gibson (2022)
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2	Dependency locality as an explanatory principle for word order
	Futrell, Richard; Levy, Roger P; Gibson, Edward A
	In: Prof. Levy (2022)
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3	Extraction from subjects: Differences in acceptability depend on the discourse function of the construction
	Abeillé, Anne; Hemforth, Barbara; Winckel, Elodie; Gibson, Edward A
	In: Prof. Gibson (2022)
	Abstract: © 2020 Elsevier B.V. In order to explain the unacceptability of certain long-distance dependencies – termed syntactic islands by Ross (1967) – syntacticians proposed constraints on long-distance dependencies which are universal and purely syntactic and thus not dependent on the meaning of the construction (Chomsky, 1977; Chomsky, 1995 a.o.). This predicts that these constraints should hold across constructions and languages. In this paper, we investigate the “subject island” constraint across constructions in English and French, a constraint that blocks extraction out of subjects. In particular, we compare extraction out of nominal subjects with extraction out of nominal objects, in relative clauses and wh-questions, using similar materials across constructions and languages. Contrary to the syntactic accounts, we find that unacceptable extractions from subjects involve (a) extraction in wh-questions (in both languages); or (b) preposition stranding (in English). But the extraction of a whole prepositional phrase from subjects in a relative clause, in both languages, is as good or better than a similar extraction from objects. Following Erteschik-Shir (1973) and Kuno (1987) among others, we propose a theory that takes into account the discourse status of the extracted element in the construction at hand: the extracted element is a focus (corresponding to new information) in wh-questions, but not in relative clauses. The focus status conflicts with the non-focal status of a subject (usually given or discourse-old). These results suggest that most previous discussions of islands may rely on the wrong premise that all extraction types behave alike. Once different extraction types are recognized as different constructions (Croft, 2001; Ginzburg & Sag, 2000; Goldberg, 2006; Sag, 2010), with their own discourse functions, one can explain different extraction patterns depending on the construction.
	URL: https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/138860.2
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4	Syntactic dependencies correspond to word pairs with high mutual information
	Futrell, Richard; Qian, Peng; Gibson, Edward A...
	In: Association for Computational Linguistics (2021)
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5	Word Order Predicts Cross‐Linguistic Differences in the Production of Redundant Color and Number Modifiers
	Wu, Sarah A; Gibson, Edward A
	In: MIT web domain (2021)
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6	Communication efficiency of color naming across languages provides a new framework for the evolution of color terms
	Gibson, Edward A
	In: PMC (2021)
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7	The Natural Stories corpus: a reading-time corpus of English texts containing rare syntactic constructions
	Futrell, Richard; Gibson, Edward A; Tily, Harry J....
	In: Springer Netherlands (2020)
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8	How Efficiency Shapes Human Language ; How Efficiency Shapes Human Language, TICS 2019
	Gibson, Edward A; Futrell, Richard; Piantadosi, Steven...
	In: Prof. Levy via Courtney Crummett (2019)
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9	Comprehenders model the nature of noise in the environment
	Ryskin, Rachel A; Futrell, Richard; Kiran, Swathi...
	In: PMC (2019)
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10	Partial Truths: Adults Choose to Mention Agents and Patients in Proportion to Informativity, Even If It Doesn’t Fully Disambiguate the Message
	Kline, Melissa; Schulz, Laura E; Gibson, Edward A
	In: MIT Press (2019)
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11	Word Forms Are Structured for Efficient Use
	Mahowald, Kyle Adam; Dautriche, Isabelle; Gibson, Edward A...
	In: Prof. Gibson via Courtney Crummett (2018)
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12	Color naming across languages reflects color use
	Ratnasingam, Sivalogeswaran; Piantadosi, Steven T.; Conway, Bevil R....
	In: National Academy of Sciences (2018)
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13	Tracking Colisteners’ Knowledge States During Language Comprehension
	Jouravlev, Olessia; Schwartz, Rachael; Ayyash, Dima...
	In: Prof. Gibson via Courtney Crummett (2018)
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14	SNAP judgments: A small N acceptability paradigm (SNAP) for linguistic acceptability judgments: Online Appendices
	Graff, Peter; Hartman, Jeremy; Mahowald, Kyle Adam...
	In: Language (2018)
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15	Words cluster phonetically beyond phonotactic regularities
	Dautriche, Isabelle; Christophe, Anne; Piantadosi, Steven T....
	In: Prof. Gibson via Courtney Crummett (2017)
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16	A meta-analysis of syntactic priming in language production
	James, Ariel; Mahowald, Kyle Adam; Futrell, Richard Landy Jones...
	In: Prof. Gibson via Courtney Crummett (2016)
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17	Wordform Similarity Increases With Semantic Similarity: An Analysis of 100 Languages
	Dautriche, Isabelle; Piantadosi, Steven T.; Mahowald, Kyle Adam...
	In: Prof. Gibson via Courtney Crummett (2016)
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18	Processing temporal presuppositions: an event-related potential study
	Stearns, Laura; Eddy, Marianna; Jouravlev, Olessia...
	In: Prof. Gibson via Courtney Crummett (2016)
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19	L2 processing as noisy channel language comprehension
	Futrell, Richard Landy Jones; Gibson, Edward A
	In: Prof. Gibson via Courtney Crummett (2016)
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20	Don’t Underestimate the Benefits of Being Misunderstood
	Konieczny, Lars; Hemforth, Barbara; Gibson, Edward A...
	In: Prof. Gibson via Courtney Crummett (2016)
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