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Structural, Functional, and Processing Perspectives on Linguistic Island Effects
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In: EISSN: 2333-9691 ; Annual Review of Linguistics ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03506510 ; Annual Review of Linguistics, Annual Reviews, 2022, 8 (1), ⟨10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011619-030319⟩ (2022)
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How Efficiency Shapes Human Language
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In: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03552539 ; 2022 (2022)
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A verb-frame frequency account of constraints on long-distance dependencies in English
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In: Prof. Gibson (2022)
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Dependency locality as an explanatory principle for word order
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In: Prof. Levy (2022)
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Extraction from subjects: Differences in acceptability depend on the discourse function of the construction
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In: Prof. Gibson (2022)
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© 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.
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URL: https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/138860.2
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Grammatical cues are largely, but not completely, redundant with word meanings in natural language ...
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Efficient communication and the organization of the lexicon
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In: OUP volume on the Mental Lexicon ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03482414 ; OUP volume on the Mental Lexicon, In press, ⟨10.31234/osf.io/4an6v⟩ (2021)
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An ERP index of real-time error correction within a noisy-channel framework of human communication.
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What did I sign? A study of the impenetrability of legalese in contracts
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In: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, vol 43, iss 43 (2021)
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Variation in spatial concepts: Different frames of reference on different axes
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In: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, vol 43, iss 43 (2021)
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Syntactic dependencies correspond to word pairs with high mutual information
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In: Association for Computational Linguistics (2021)
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Syntactic dependencies correspond to word pairs with high mutual information
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In: Association for Computational Linguistics (2021)
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Word Order Predicts Cross‐Linguistic Differences in the Production of Redundant Color and Number Modifiers
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In: MIT web domain (2021)
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An ERP index of real-time error correction within a noisy-channel framework of human communication
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In: bioRxiv (2021)
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What did I sign? A study of the impenetrability of legalese in contracts ...
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Variation in spatial concepts: Different frames of reference on different axes ...
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Communication efficiency of color naming across languages provides a new framework for the evolution of color terms
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In: PMC (2021)
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Lossy‐Context Surprisal: An Information‐Theoretic Model of Memory Effects in Sentence Processing
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In: Wiley (2021)
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Incremental Language Comprehension Difficulty Predicts Activity in the Language Network but Not the Multiple Demand Network
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In: Cereb Cortex (2021)
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