Subject Gaps Revisited: Complement Clauses and Complementizer-Trace Effects

• Published in: Frontiers in psychology Vol. 12; p. 658364
• Main Authors: Tollan, Rebecca, Palaz, Bilge
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A 19.05.2021
• Subjects: complementizers; embedded clauses; filled gap effects; long-distance dependencies; Psychology; subjecthood

This study investigates how filler-gap dependencies associated with subject position are formed in online sentence comprehension. Since Crain and Fodor (1985) , “filled-gap” studies have provided evidence that the parser actively seeks to associate a wh-filler with a gap in direct object position of...