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Island Constraints: What is there for children to learn?
(2022)This dissertation presents behavioral studies that target the early syntactic representations of wh-movement during infancy and early childhood. Previous studies show that by 20 months-old, infants represent wh-movement ... -
What could go wrong? Linguistic illusions and incremental interpretation
(2022)The systems underlying incremental sentence comprehension are, in general, highly successful - comprehenders typically understand sentences of their native language quickly and accurately. The occasional failure of the ... -
Are you asking me or telling me? Learning clause types and speech acts in English and Mandarin
(2022)Languages tend to have three major clause types (declaratives, interrogatives, imperatives), dedicated to three main speech acts (assertions, questions, commands). However, the particular forms that these clause types take ... -
Explorations in Diagnosing Competence and Performance Factors in Linguistic Inquiry
(2022)This dissertation presents a series of case studies concerned with whether the signal in a given set of measurements that we take in the course of linguistic inquiry reflects grammatical competence or performance factors. ... -
All about alles: The syntax of wh-quantifier float in German
(2021)This thesis offers an in-depth investigation of “wh-quantifier float” of the quantifying particle ‘alles’ in German. 'Alles' (etymologically, ‘all’) appears in wh-questions like 'Wen alles hat die Mare eingeladen?' (‘Who-all ...