Sentence Processing without Empty Categories.

Pickering, Martin; Barry, Guy

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ERIC Number: EJ431428

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1991

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Sentence Processing without Empty Categories.

Pickering, Martin; Barry, Guy

Language and Cognitive Processes, v6 n3 p229-59 Aug 1991

Provides evidence that sentence processing does not make use of grammatical theories with empty categories. A linguistic account is provided of unbounded dependencies that do not use empty categories and can serve as the basis of a processing model. It is concluded that empty categories are not psychologically real. (28 references) (JL)

Descriptors: Grammar, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory, Models, Sentence Structure

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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