Filler driven parsing: A study of gap filling in dutch

Simple Dutch declaratives and questions were presented in a grammaticality judgment task to assess the validity of the “active filler strategy” (AFS). The AFS predicts that moved constituents, such as the initial constituent of a Dutch sentence, will be assigned to the leftmost possible gap. This re...

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Published inJournal of memory and language Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 331 - 344
Main Authors Frazier, Lyn, Flores d'Arcais, Giovanni B
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Elsevier Inc 01.06.1989
Academic Press
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Germanic Languages
Judgment Tasks
Psycholinguistics
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Summary:Simple Dutch declaratives and questions were presented in a grammaticality judgment task to assess the validity of the “active filler strategy” (AFS). The AFS predicts that moved constituents, such as the initial constituent of a Dutch sentence, will be assigned to the leftmost possible gap. This results in better performance on subject-initial than on object-initial sentences. These predictions were confirmed, supporting a “filler” driven account of gap filling where gaps may be postulated before or without identifying a missing constituent in the input string. The results argue against the existence of a bottom-up parser in which the presence of a gap is detected only when lexically present local phrases have been parsed.
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ISSN:0749-596X
1096-0821
DOI:10.1016/0749-596X(89)90037-5