Syntactic Complexity Phenomena Are Better Explained Without Empty Elements Mediating Long‐Distance Dependencies
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DOI: 10.1111/cogs.70088
Abstract: Abstract We report the results of two acceptability judgment experiments on English materials, which were designed in order to help disentangle predictions of syntactic theories with transformations from nontransformational theories. The materials in these experiments… read more here.
Keywords: long distance; syntactic complexity; cost; nontransformational theories ... See more keywords