Cognitive constraints and island effects

Language

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 366-415

  Hofmeister, Philip ^a   Sag, Ivan A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Filler gap dependencies; Islands; Processing difficulty; Syntax; WH movement; WH phrase complexity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954744327     PISSN: 00978507     EISSN: 15350665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lan.0.0223     Document Type: Article

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