A subject advantage in covert dependencies: The case of wh‐question comprehension in French Sign Language

• Published in: Syntax (Oxford, England) Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 280 - 310
• Main Authors: Hauser, Charlotte, Aristodemo, Valentina, Donati, Caterina
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2023; Wiley-Blackwell
• Subjects: age of first language exposure; Binding; Cognitive science; Comprehension; French language; French Sign Language; Grammatical subject; Humanities and Social Sciences; Linguistic competence; Linguistics; Psychology; Questions; Sign language; subject advantage; Syntactic movement; Syntactic processing; Wh phrases; wh‐in‐situ questions

Studies on sentence processing have shown that, as with all A‐bar dependencies, content questions involving wh movement display a subject advantage. Very little is known, however, about wh‐in‐situ questions. The aim of this article is to fill this gap and explore whether a subject advantage can be f...