A verb-frame frequency account of constraints on long-distance dependencies in English

Going back to Ross (1967) and Chomsky (1973), researchers have sought to understand what conditions permit long-distance dependencies in language, such as between the wh-word what and the verb bought in the sentence 'What did John think that Mary bought?'. In the present work, we attempt t...

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Main Authors: Liu, Yingtong (Author), Ryskin, Rachel (Author), Futrell, Richard (Author), Gibson, Edward A (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier BV, 2022-01-10T20:16:35Z.
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