Empty Categories Access Their Antecedents during Comprehension

Empty Categories Access Their Antecedents during Comprehension

A word-priming study shows the explicit pronouns, PRO, & two kinds of NP movement traces all access their antecedents during comprehension. Movement traces access their antecedents more strongly than PRO, as predicted by the relatively strong structural dependence between traces & their ante...

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Veröffentlicht in:Linguistic inquiry 1988-01, Vol.19 (1), p.35-43
Hauptverfasser: Bever, Thomas G., McElree, Brian
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Attorneys
Criminal sentencing
Judges
Linguistics
Phrases
Production and comprehension processes
Pronouns
Psycholinguistics
Psychology of language
Sentences
Syntactical antecedents
Verbs
Words
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Zusammenfassung:A word-priming study shows the explicit pronouns, PRO, & two kinds of NP movement traces all access their antecedents during comprehension. Movement traces access their antecedents more strongly than PRO, as predicted by the relatively strong structural dependence between traces & their antecedents. Three further studies show that movement trace in the passive construction primes its antecedent with an effect similar to the other movement traces. 1 Table, 28 References. AA
ISSN:0024-3892
1530-9150