Matthew W Wagers
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1610180 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Matthew W Wagers |
| NOMBRES | Matthew W |
| APELLIDO | Wagers |
| FIRMA | WAGERS M W |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3139-2380 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Processing covert dependencies
This study presents a reading experiment and a production experiment on Turkish wh-in-situ constructions. These constructions establish a relationship between a wh element and its scope position without displacing the element from its original argument position; thus, they are referred to as covert dependencies. The results suggest that covert dependencies are resolved actively, similar to filler-gap dependencies that have reliable cues that sign…
Subject islands do not reduce to construction-specific discourse function
A central question about our shared capacity for language is how it is integrated with other cognitive systems. One important debate focuses on the extent to which the form of linguistic expressions is grounded in their communicative function: Can all constraints on linguistic form be attributed to the way constructions package information, or is linguistic form autonomous of meaning and function? One area of disagreement involves islands: phrase…
Predictability of the Retrieval Site Does Not Modulate Interference
Syntactic dependency formation in comprehension is subject to retrieval interference that occurs when comprehenders need to activate stored information in memory to form and interpret a linguistic dependency. For example, retrieving a subject phrase to attach it to the verb might result in agreement attraction errors. It remains unclear whether this interference arises as part of routine dependency formation or as part of a repair mechanism that …
A tale of two Tagalogs
A well-received generalization in Tagalog is that only the argument that is cross-referenced by voice is eligible for A-bar extraction. However, recent work has shown that agents that are not cross-referenced by voice are also eligible. We provide naturally occurring data, along with experimental evidence, consistent with this more permissive picture. Further, we present computational evidence that participants were treating agent-extractions not…
Extraction from English RCs and Cross-Linguistic Similarities in the Environments That Facilitate Extraction
In the first two decades following Ross's Constraints on Variables in Syntax, a picture emerged in which the Mainland Scandinavian (MS) languages appeared to systematically evade some of the locality constraints proposed by Ross, including the relative clause (RC) part of the complex NP constraint. The MS extraction patterns remain a topic of debate, but there is no consensus as to why extraction from RCs should be so degraded in English (compare…
On the universality of intrusive resumption
English Resumptive Pronouns Are More Common Where Gaps Are Less Acceptable
Ā-dependencies occur when an argument appears clause-peripherally, dislocated from its canonical base position, as in relative clauses (1a). The displaced argument is a filler (italicized in (1) and throughout), and the base position is typically realized as a gap—that is, a syntactic category that is not pronounced (represented by an underscore throughout). A subset of languages that employ the filler-gap strategy, including Arabic (Aoun and Cho…
Ergativity and the complexity of extraction
The real-time comprehension of WH-dependencies in a WH-agreement language
In the verb-initial language Chamorro, an Austronesian language of the Mariana Islands, wh -dependencies exhibit a special verbal inflection known as wh-agreement : verbs along the path of the wh -dependency are inflected for the grammatical relation of the gap and the intermediate landing sites of the filler. Two on-line comprehension experiments conducted in the Northern Mariana Islands reveal that the morphological paradigm of wh -agreement af…
Processing covert dependencies
Working-memory capacity and island effects
Working-memory capacity and island effects:A reminder of the issues and the facts Jon Sprouse, Matt Wagers, and Colin Phillips 1. Understanding the Terms of the Debate. In their response to our article (Sprouse et al. 2012), Hofmeister, Staum Casasanto, and Sag (2012, henceforth HSS) level three primary criticisms at our studies: (i) that working-memory (WM) correlations are not predicted by reductionist theories, (ii) that the WM tasks that we c…
A test of the relation between working-memory capacity and syntactic island effects
The source of syntactic island effects has been a topic of considerable debate within linguistics and psycholinguistics. Explanations fall into three basic categories: grammatical theories, which posit specific grammatical constraints that exclude extraction from islands; grounded theories, which posit grammaticized constraints that have arisen to adapt to constraints on learning or parsing; and reductionist theories, which analyze island effects…
Agreement attraction in comprehension
Multiple dependencies and the role of the grammar in real-time comprehension
Wh -dependencies are known to be formed rapidly in real-time comprehension. The parser posits the location of gap sites in advance of the bottom-up evidence for missing constituents, and must therefore have a means of deciding when and where to project dependencies. Previous studies have observed that the parser avoids building ungrammatical wh -dependencies, for example, by restricting the search for gap sites from island domains. This paper tes…
A test of the relation between working-memory capacity and syntactic island effects
The source of syntactic island effects has been a topic of considerable debate within linguistics and psycholinguistics. Explanations fall into three basic categories: grammatical theories, which posit specific grammatical constraints that exclude extraction from islands; grounded theories, which posit grammaticized constraints that have arisen to adapt to constraints on learning or parsing; and reductionist theories, which analyze island effects…
Multiple dependencies and the role of the grammar in real-time comprehension
Wh -dependencies are known to be formed rapidly in real-time comprehension. The parser posits the location of gap sites in advance of the bottom-up evidence for missing constituents, and must therefore have a means of deciding when and where to project dependencies. Previous studies have observed that the parser avoids building ungrammatical wh -dependencies, for example, by restricting the search for gap sites from island domains. This paper tes…
Extraction from English RCs and Cross-Linguistic Similarities in the Environments That Facilitate Extraction
In the first two decades following Ross's Constraints on Variables in Syntax, a picture emerged in which the Mainland Scandinavian (MS) languages appeared to systematically evade some of the locality constraints proposed by Ross, including the relative clause (RC) part of the complex NP constraint. The MS extraction patterns remain a topic of debate, but there is no consensus as to why extraction from RCs should be so degraded in English (compare…
The real-time comprehension of WH-dependencies in a WH-agreement language
In the verb-initial language Chamorro, an Austronesian language of the Mariana Islands, wh -dependencies exhibit a special verbal inflection known as wh-agreement : verbs along the path of the wh -dependency are inflected for the grammatical relation of the gap and the intermediate landing sites of the filler. Two on-line comprehension experiments conducted in the Northern Mariana Islands reveal that the morphological paradigm of wh -agreement af…
English Resumptive Pronouns Are More Common Where Gaps Are Less Acceptable
Ā-dependencies occur when an argument appears clause-peripherally, dislocated from its canonical base position, as in relative clauses (1a). The displaced argument is a filler (italicized in (1) and throughout), and the base position is typically realized as a gap—that is, a syntactic category that is not pronounced (represented by an underscore throughout). A subset of languages that employ the filler-gap strategy, including Arabic (Aoun and Cho…
Ergativity and the complexity of extraction
Working-memory capacity and island effects
Working-memory capacity and island effects:A reminder of the issues and the facts Jon Sprouse, Matt Wagers, and Colin Phillips 1. Understanding the Terms of the Debate. In their response to our article (Sprouse et al. 2012), Hofmeister, Staum Casasanto, and Sag (2012, henceforth HSS) level three primary criticisms at our studies: (i) that working-memory (WM) correlations are not predicted by reductionist theories, (ii) that the WM tasks that we c…
Agreement attraction in comprehension
Multiple dependencies and the role of the grammar in real-time comprehension
Wh -dependencies are known to be formed rapidly in real-time comprehension. The parser posits the location of gap sites in advance of the bottom-up evidence for missing constituents, and must therefore have a means of deciding when and where to project dependencies. Previous studies have observed that the parser avoids building ungrammatical wh -dependencies, for example, by restricting the search for gap sites from island domains. This paper tes…
Working-memory capacity and island effects
Working-memory capacity and island effects:A reminder of the issues and the facts Jon Sprouse, Matt Wagers, and Colin Phillips 1. Understanding the Terms of the Debate. In their response to our article (Sprouse et al. 2012), Hofmeister, Staum Casasanto, and Sag (2012, henceforth HSS) level three primary criticisms at our studies: (i) that working-memory (WM) correlations are not predicted by reductionist theories, (ii) that the WM tasks that we c…
A test of the relation between working-memory capacity and syntactic island effects
The source of syntactic island effects has been a topic of considerable debate within linguistics and psycholinguistics. Explanations fall into three basic categories: grammatical theories, which posit specific grammatical constraints that exclude extraction from islands; grounded theories, which posit grammaticized constraints that have arisen to adapt to constraints on learning or parsing; and reductionist theories, which analyze island effects…
Processing covert dependencies
Ergativity and the complexity of extraction
The real-time comprehension of WH-dependencies in a WH-agreement language
In the verb-initial language Chamorro, an Austronesian language of the Mariana Islands, wh -dependencies exhibit a special verbal inflection known as wh-agreement : verbs along the path of the wh -dependency are inflected for the grammatical relation of the gap and the intermediate landing sites of the filler. Two on-line comprehension experiments conducted in the Northern Mariana Islands reveal that the morphological paradigm of wh -agreement af…
English Resumptive Pronouns Are More Common Where Gaps Are Less Acceptable
Ā-dependencies occur when an argument appears clause-peripherally, dislocated from its canonical base position, as in relative clauses (1a). The displaced argument is a filler (italicized in (1) and throughout), and the base position is typically realized as a gap—that is, a syntactic category that is not pronounced (represented by an underscore throughout). A subset of languages that employ the filler-gap strategy, including Arabic (Aoun and Cho…
On the universality of intrusive resumption
Extraction from English RCs and Cross-Linguistic Similarities in the Environments That Facilitate Extraction
In the first two decades following Ross's Constraints on Variables in Syntax, a picture emerged in which the Mainland Scandinavian (MS) languages appeared to systematically evade some of the locality constraints proposed by Ross, including the relative clause (RC) part of the complex NP constraint. The MS extraction patterns remain a topic of debate, but there is no consensus as to why extraction from RCs should be so degraded in English (compare…
A tale of two Tagalogs
A well-received generalization in Tagalog is that only the argument that is cross-referenced by voice is eligible for A-bar extraction. However, recent work has shown that agents that are not cross-referenced by voice are also eligible. We provide naturally occurring data, along with experimental evidence, consistent with this more permissive picture. Further, we present computational evidence that participants were treating agent-extractions not…
Predictability of the Retrieval Site Does Not Modulate Interference
Syntactic dependency formation in comprehension is subject to retrieval interference that occurs when comprehenders need to activate stored information in memory to form and interpret a linguistic dependency. For example, retrieving a subject phrase to attach it to the verb might result in agreement attraction errors. It remains unclear whether this interference arises as part of routine dependency formation or as part of a repair mechanism that …
Processing covert dependencies
This study presents a reading experiment and a production experiment on Turkish wh-in-situ constructions. These constructions establish a relationship between a wh element and its scope position without displacing the element from its original argument position; thus, they are referred to as covert dependencies. The results suggest that covert dependencies are resolved actively, similar to filler-gap dependencies that have reliable cues that sign…
Subject islands do not reduce to construction-specific discourse function
A central question about our shared capacity for language is how it is integrated with other cognitive systems. One important debate focuses on the extent to which the form of linguistic expressions is grounded in their communicative function: Can all constraints on linguistic form be attributed to the way constructions package information, or is linguistic form autonomous of meaning and function? One area of disagreement involves islands: phrase…
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