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标题：Intervention effects in wh-chains: the combined effect of syntax and processing
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作者：Pilar Barbosa ; Cecile De Cat
期刊名称：Glossa
电子版ISSN：2397-1835
出版年度：2019
卷号：4
期号：1
页码：127-152
DOI：10.5334/gjgl.1005
出版社：Ubiquity Press
摘要：This study in experimental syntax investigates the factors affecting the acceptability of embedded clauses featuring a left-dislocated phrase below a fronted wh-phrase. Sixty native speakers of French took part in an on-line acceptability judgment task including 45 critical items (with an intervening XP) and 20 baseline items (including grammatical and ungrammatical sentences with an embedded wh-dependency). Using Random Forest and Ordinal Regression analyses we demonstrate that Clitic Left Dislocated (CLLD) objects yield stronger intervention effects (except when they are pronouns) than CLLDed subjects. We argue this is due to excessive processing demands incurred when a wh-dependency features a CLLD chain that is not fully within its scope. A processing account also explains why pronouns are not disruptive of wh-chains.
关键词：clitic left dislocation;wh-movement;multiple A-bar dependencies;language processing;