Another Look at the Role of Empty Categories in Sentence Processing (and Grammar)

The gap/gapless processing debate in the psycholinguistics literature contrasts two processing models: one that assumes the trace-based Government and Binding (or Principles and Parameters) Grammar and the (augmented) Active Filler Strategy and one that assumes the traceless Dependency Categorial Gr...

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Published inJournal of psycholinguistic research Vol. 33; no. 1; pp. 51 - 73
Main Author Lee, Ming-Wei
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Springer 01.01.2004
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Grammar
Humans
Language
Language Processing
Linguistics
Psycholinguistics
Reading
Role
Sentences
Speech Perception
Time Factors
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Summary:The gap/gapless processing debate in the psycholinguistics literature contrasts two processing models: one that assumes the trace-based Government and Binding (or Principles and Parameters) Grammar and the (augmented) Active Filler Strategy and one that assumes the traceless Dependency Categorial Grammar and the Principle of Dependency Formation. This paper reports on an experiment that found new evidence against the gapless/traceless model, considers why such evidence was not found in previous studies, and explores whether a parser that combines a (partially) traceless grammar and the augmented Active Filler Strategy can explain the current finding.
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ISSN:0090-6905
1573-6555
DOI:10.1023/B:JOPR.0000010514.50468.30