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Talking About Her(Self): Ambiguity Avoidance And Principle B. A Theoretical And Psycholinguistic Investigation Of Romanian Pronouns, Rudmila-Rodica Ivan
Talking About Her(Self): Ambiguity Avoidance And Principle B. A Theoretical And Psycholinguistic Investigation Of Romanian Pronouns, Rudmila-Rodica Ivan
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation answers a deceivingly simple question: why can her in Hermione talked about her refer to the sentence subject in Romanian, but not in English? The Romanian facts, which are surprising for both classic and competition-based accounts of the Binding Theory over the last 40 odd years, bring us to the following overarching question: what are the constraints on pronominal reference? To address these main questions, I carry out a psycholinguistic investigation of Romanian pronouns and argue that the distribution and interpretation of pronominal forms is jointly determined by pragmatic and morphosyntactic constraints. I discuss evidence from four experiments, …
Person-Based Prominence In Ojibwe, Christopher Hammerly
Person-Based Prominence In Ojibwe, Christopher Hammerly
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation develops a formal and psycholinguistic theory of person-based prominence effects, the finding that certain categories of person such as "first" and "second" (the "local" persons) are privileged by the grammar. The thesis takes on three questions: (i) What are the possible categories related to person? (ii) What are the possible prominence relationships between these categories? And (iii) how is prominence information used to parse and interpret linguistic input in real time? The empirical through-line is understanding obviation — a “spotlighting” system, found most prominently in the Algonquian family of languages, that splits the (ani- mate) third persons into …
Representing Context: Presupposition Triggers And Focus-Sensitivity, Alexander Goebel
Representing Context: Presupposition Triggers And Focus-Sensitivity, Alexander Goebel
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation investigates the role of Focus-sensitivity for a typology of presupposition triggers. The central hypothesis is that Focus-sensitive triggers require a linguistic antecedent in the discourse model, whereas presuppositions of triggers lacking Focus-sensitivity are satisfied as entailments of the Common Ground. This hypothesis is supported by experimental evidence from two borne out predictions. First, Focus-sensitive triggers are sensitive to the salience of the antecedent satisfying their presupposition, as operationalized via the Question Under Discussion, and lead to interference-type effects, while triggers lacking Focus-sensitivity are indifferent to the QUD-structure. Second, Focus-sensitive triggers are harder to globally accommodate than triggers lacking …
The Acquisition Of Np-Trace In English, Michiko Terada
The Acquisition Of Np-Trace In English, Michiko Terada
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
The Acquisition Of Passive With Instrumental Prepositional Phrases In English, Xiaoping Teng
The Acquisition Of Passive With Instrumental Prepositional Phrases In English, Xiaoping Teng
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
Deterministic Parsing And The Verb Raising Construction In German And Dutch, Hotze Rullmann
Deterministic Parsing And The Verb Raising Construction In German And Dutch, Hotze Rullmann
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
The Parsing Of Anaphor Binding & Levels Of Representation, Bernadette Plunkett
The Parsing Of Anaphor Binding & Levels Of Representation, Bernadette Plunkett
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
The Early Interpretation Of Expletive Pronouns, Ana Teresa Perez-Leroux, Sabina Aurilio
The Early Interpretation Of Expletive Pronouns, Ana Teresa Perez-Leroux, Sabina Aurilio
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
The Syntax And Processing Of Sentential Subjects, Jaye Padgett
The Syntax And Processing Of Sentential Subjects, Jaye Padgett
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
Comprehending Sentences Containing Traces, John S. Huitema
Comprehending Sentences Containing Traces, John S. Huitema
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
Processing Of Wh-Dependencies In A Null Subject Language: Referential And Non-Referential Whs., Marica De Vincenzi
Processing Of Wh-Dependencies In A Null Subject Language: Referential And Non-Referential Whs., Marica De Vincenzi
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
Dissecting The Adjective Ordering Constraint In English, Juli Carter
Dissecting The Adjective Ordering Constraint In English, Juli Carter
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
Formal Semantics Of Telegraphic Speech, Virgina Brennan
Formal Semantics Of Telegraphic Speech, Virgina Brennan
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
Front Matter, Bernadette Plunkett
Front Matter, Bernadette Plunkett
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
From Cognition To Thematic Roles: The Projection Principle As An Acquisition Mechanism, Dan Finer, Thomas Roeper
From Cognition To Thematic Roles: The Projection Principle As An Acquisition Mechanism, Dan Finer, Thomas Roeper
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
When Comprehension Difficulty Improves Memory For Text, Edward J. O'Brien, Jerome L. Myers
When Comprehension Difficulty Improves Memory For Text, Edward J. O'Brien, Jerome L. Myers
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
Anaphora And Discourse Structure, Barbara C. Malt
Anaphora And Discourse Structure, Barbara C. Malt
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
Complementizers, Markedness, And Readjustment In Children's Comprehension Of Relatives And Clefts, Helen Goodluck
Complementizers, Markedness, And Readjustment In Children's Comprehension Of Relatives And Clefts, Helen Goodluck
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
Thematic Relations In Parsing, Lyn Frazier, Charles Clifton Jr
Thematic Relations In Parsing, Lyn Frazier, Charles Clifton Jr
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
The Role Of Context In Resolving Syntactic Ambiguity, Fernanda Ferreira
The Role Of Context In Resolving Syntactic Ambiguity, Fernanda Ferreira
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
Identifying Phonemes And Syllables: Evidence From People Who Rapidly Reorder Speech, Nelson Cowan, Martin D. S. Braine, Lewis A. Leavitt
Identifying Phonemes And Syllables: Evidence From People Who Rapidly Reorder Speech, Nelson Cowan, Martin D. S. Braine, Lewis A. Leavitt
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.
Front Matter, T. Daniel Seely
Front Matter, T. Daniel Seely
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics
No abstract provided.