An acceptability study of long-distance extractions in Swedish
(2017) p.103-120- Abstract
- The current study compares controlled acceptability judgments for Swedish relative clause extractions to extractions from that-clauses and extractions from non-restrictive relative clauses. It also compares each structure in both extracted and non-extracted form. The reported possibility of relative clause extraction in Swedish (and the other Mainland Scandinavian languages) has long presented a challenge to universal theories of constraints on extraction because the phenomenon is cross- linguistically very rare. In the off-line judgment data presented here, relative clause extractions are shown to pattern with extractions that are assumed to involve an island-like violation (non-restrictive relative clause extraction), thus... (More)
- The current study compares controlled acceptability judgments for Swedish relative clause extractions to extractions from that-clauses and extractions from non-restrictive relative clauses. It also compares each structure in both extracted and non-extracted form. The reported possibility of relative clause extraction in Swedish (and the other Mainland Scandinavian languages) has long presented a challenge to universal theories of constraints on extraction because the phenomenon is cross- linguistically very rare. In the off-line judgment data presented here, relative clause extractions are shown to pattern with extractions that are assumed to involve an island-like violation (non-restrictive relative clause extraction), thus contrasting with informal judgments reported in the literature. The data also appear to present a counterpoint to the conclusion reached in Tutunjian, Heinat, Klingvall and Wiklund (2017) from on-line eye-tracking measures, regarding the representational status of this structure as being more in line with that of a licit extraction. Potential explanations for the obtained patterns of the result are discussed, presenting avenues for further investigations. (Less)
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- Wiklund, Anna-Lena LU ; Heinat, Fredrik LU ; Klingvall, Eva LU and Tutunjian, Damon LU
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- publishing date
- 2017
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- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- Language Processing and Disorders
- editor
- Escobar, Linda ; Torrens, Vicenç and Parodi, Teresa
- pages
- 103 - 120
- publisher
- Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- ISBN
- 978-1-4438-9508-8
- project
- Universality and domain-specificity: processing relative clause extractions in Swedish
- language
- English
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- yes
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