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Sentence Processing with Empty Categories.
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Gibson, Edward; Hickok, Gregory – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1993
Pickering and Barry's recent argument against the existence of empty categories (ECs) in human sentence processing is disputed. It is argued here that ECs may still play a linking role between thematic role assigners and wh-phrases. One possible parsing algorithm is given that accounts for Pickering and Barry's data. (28 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Sentence Structure
The Complexity of Nested Structures in Japanese.
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Babyonyshev, Maria; Gibson, Edward – Language, 1999
Presents two questionnaire experiments that investigated the processing complexity of a variety of nested constructions in Japanese. The results are discussed in terms of the syntactic-prediction locality theory. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Contrastive Linguistics, English, Japanese