WH-MOVEMENT AND THE POSITION OF SPEC-CP: EVIDENCE FROM AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE [0.03%]
论元交替与美国手语中的SpecCP位置
Karen Petronio,Diane Lillo-Martin
Karen Petronio
Some researchers have claimed that wh-movement in ASL is rightward, contrary to the apparent universality of leftward wh-movement. In contrast to this claim, we argue that wh-movement in ASL is to a leftward specifier of CP. We account for ...
LANGUAGE EXPOSURE PREDICTS CHILDREN'S PHONETIC PATTERNING: EVIDENCE FROM LANGUAGE SHIFT [0.03%]
语言暴露预测儿童的发音模式：来自语言转换的证据
Margaret Cychosz
Margaret Cychosz
Although understanding the role of the environment is central to language acquisition theory, rarely has this been studied for children's phonetic development, and receptive and expressive language experiences in the environment are not dis...
QUANTIFIERS UNDONE: REVERSING PREDICTABLE SPEECH ERRORS IN COMPREHENSION [0.03%]
量化符失效：理解过程中逆转可预测的言语错误
Lyn Frazier,Charles Clifton Jr
Lyn Frazier
Speakers predictably make errors during spontaneous speech. Listeners may identify such errors and repair the input, or their analysis of the input, accordingly. Two written questionnaire studies investigated error compensation mechanisms i...
LEARNING NONADJACENT DEPENDENCIES IN PHONOLOGY: TRANSPARENT VOWELS IN VOWEL HARMONY [0.03%]
音韵学中透明元音的非相邻依赖关系学习：以元音和谐为例
Sara Finley
Sara Finley
Nonadjacent dependencies are an important part of the structure of language. While the majority of syntactic and phonological processes occur at a local domain, there are several processes that appear to apply at a distance, posing a challe...
Subject/object processing asymmetries in Korean relative clauses: Evidence from ERP data [0.03%]
基于ERP数据的韩语关系从句中宾语/施事加工差异性
Nayoung Kwon,Robert Kluender,Marta Kutas et al.
Nayoung Kwon et al.
Subject relative (SR) clauses have a reliable processing advantage in VO languages like English in which relative clauses (RCs) follow the head noun. The question is whether this is also routinely true of OV languages like Japanese and Kore...
Hierarchical structure in a self-created communication system: Building nominal constituents in homesign [0.03%]
自创沟通系统中的层级结构：家庭手势语中的名词构成
Dea Hunsicker,Susan Goldin-Meadow
Dea Hunsicker
Deaf children whose hearing losses are so severe that they cannot acquire spoken language and whose hearing parents have not exposed them to sign language nevertheless use gestures, called homesigns, to communicate. Homesigners have been sh...
Philip Hofmeister,Ivan A Sag
Philip Hofmeister
Competence-based theories of island effects play a central role in generative grammar, yet the graded nature of many syntactic islands has never been properly accounted for. Categorical syntactic accounts of island effects have persisted in...
Mark Aronoff,Irit Meir,Wendy Sandler
Mark Aronoff
Sign languages have two strikingly different kinds of morphological structure: sequential and simultaneous. The simultaneous morphology of two unrelated sign languages, American and Israeli Sign Language, is very similar and is largely infl...