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Referential Computations and "Wh"-Movement in Native and Non-Native Processing of French: Evidence from Reading Times
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Charlène Gilbert – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Research in first-language (L1) sentence processing has found evidence that language comprehenders use binding condition A as a filter to rule out noun phrases that are binding-inaccessible before proceeding with the task of finding the correct antecedent. Sturt (2013) notes that this strategy does not appear to apply to advanced speakers of…
Descriptors: French, Native Language, Language Research, English (Second Language)
Mandarin Existential Sentences Revisited
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Jing Gao – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In this dissertation I investigate the Mandarin "you"-existential sentence. My focus is on its syntax. I also discuss in less detail some semantic peculiarity of the "you"-existential. I begin my investigation of the syntax of "you"-existentials by first looking into what they are not. To this end, I present five…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Syntax, Verbs, Form Classes (Languages)