Nick Huang
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3842840 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nick Huang |
| NOMBRES | Nick |
| APELLIDO | Huang |
| FIRMA | HUANG N |
| AFILIACIONES | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8022-1097 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The role of phases and specificity in definite islands
Treebanks and World Englishes
Treebanks (parsed corpora) play an important role in linguistic research, but creating high-quality parses can be very labor-intensive. This paper discusses the prospects of creating such parses in the context of New Englishes and what kinds of research insights parses can deliver. We present Singapore English as a case study. We suggest that despite the many contact-derived lexical and grammatical properties of Singapore English, it is quite fea…
A nearly exhaustive experimental investigation of bridge effects in English
A nearly exhaustive experimental investigation of bridge effects in English
In many languages, finite-clause-embedding verbs vary in whether they allow wh-dependencies to cross from the embedded to the matrix clause—a phenomenon we call 'bridge effects'. Why bridge effects exist has been the subject of much debate; we argue that contributing to the lack of consensus are the relatively small samples of verbs (from twelve to seventy-five for English) previously tested in the literature. To resolve this issue, we report two…
Overt pronouns in null subject languages
Interpretive differences between overt subject pronouns relative to null subject pronouns are commonly considered a defining property of Consistent Null Subject Languages (CNSLs), in contradistinction to Partial Null Subject Languages (PNSLs). In this article, we present the results of two experimental studies which challenge this view with respect to two environments: variable binding and pronominal coreference (binding) under double embedding. …
Finiteness in a language without finite morphology
Tagging Singapore English
It is well‐known that Outer Circle English has undergone extensive contact‐induced lexical and grammatical restructuring. Is it possible to use common NLP tools developed for Inner Circle English to process Outer Circle English texts? Here, we report our experience of using the Stanford PoS tagger to tag the Singaporean component of the International Corpus of English (ICE‐SIN). We isolate two major contact‐related causes of tagging errors: (1) l…
Syntactic bootstrapping attitude verbs despite impoverished morphosyntax
Attitude verbs like think and want describe mental states (belief and desire) that lack reliable physical correlates that could help children learn their meanings. Nevertheless, children succeed in doing so. For this reason, attitude verbs have been a parade case for syntactic bootstrapping. We assess a recent syntactic bootstrapping hypothesis, in which children assign belief semantics to verbs whose complement clauses morphosyntactically resemb…
When missing NPs make double center-embedding sentences acceptable
A number of languages, such as English, exhibit a grammaticality illusion in ungrammatical double center-embedding sentences where a VP is missing. This article shows that the illusion generalizes to ungrammatical Mandarin Chinese double center-embedding sentences where the head NP of a relative clause is missing.The Mandarin illusion raises interesting questions for existing accounts of center-embedding illusions. Mandarin missing NP sentences c…
How Subjects and Possessors Can Obviate Phasehood
Recent proposals on phases claim that locality restrictions are obviated when the subject of a clausal phase has certain syntactic or discourse properties, suggesting that phasehood is acquired over the course of a derivation. I evaluate these claims with acceptability judgment experiments and argue that these phase-related locality effects can be derived from independently motivated principles, such as Feature Inheritance/Value-Transfer Simultan…
Control complements in Mandarin Chinese
A nearly exhaustive experimental investigation of bridge effects in English
In many languages, finite-clause-embedding verbs vary in whether they allow wh-dependencies to cross from the embedded to the matrix clause—a phenomenon we call 'bridge effects'. Why bridge effects exist has been the subject of much debate; we argue that contributing to the lack of consensus are the relatively small samples of verbs (from twelve to seventy-five for English) previously tested in the literature. To resolve this issue, we report two…
Treebanks and World Englishes
Treebanks (parsed corpora) play an important role in linguistic research, but creating high-quality parses can be very labor-intensive. This paper discusses the prospects of creating such parses in the context of New Englishes and what kinds of research insights parses can deliver. We present Singapore English as a case study. We suggest that despite the many contact-derived lexical and grammatical properties of Singapore English, it is quite fea…
How Subjects and Possessors Can Obviate Phasehood
Recent proposals on phases claim that locality restrictions are obviated when the subject of a clausal phase has certain syntactic or discourse properties, suggesting that phasehood is acquired over the course of a derivation. I evaluate these claims with acceptability judgment experiments and argue that these phase-related locality effects can be derived from independently motivated principles, such as Feature Inheritance/Value-Transfer Simultan…
Control complements in Mandarin Chinese
When missing NPs make double center-embedding sentences acceptable
A number of languages, such as English, exhibit a grammaticality illusion in ungrammatical double center-embedding sentences where a VP is missing. This article shows that the illusion generalizes to ungrammatical Mandarin Chinese double center-embedding sentences where the head NP of a relative clause is missing.The Mandarin illusion raises interesting questions for existing accounts of center-embedding illusions. Mandarin missing NP sentences c…
How Subjects and Possessors Can Obviate Phasehood
Recent proposals on phases claim that locality restrictions are obviated when the subject of a clausal phase has certain syntactic or discourse properties, suggesting that phasehood is acquired over the course of a derivation. I evaluate these claims with acceptability judgment experiments and argue that these phase-related locality effects can be derived from independently motivated principles, such as Feature Inheritance/Value-Transfer Simultan…
Syntactic bootstrapping attitude verbs despite impoverished morphosyntax
Attitude verbs like think and want describe mental states (belief and desire) that lack reliable physical correlates that could help children learn their meanings. Nevertheless, children succeed in doing so. For this reason, attitude verbs have been a parade case for syntactic bootstrapping. We assess a recent syntactic bootstrapping hypothesis, in which children assign belief semantics to verbs whose complement clauses morphosyntactically resemb…
Tagging Singapore English
It is well‐known that Outer Circle English has undergone extensive contact‐induced lexical and grammatical restructuring. Is it possible to use common NLP tools developed for Inner Circle English to process Outer Circle English texts? Here, we report our experience of using the Stanford PoS tagger to tag the Singaporean component of the International Corpus of English (ICE‐SIN). We isolate two major contact‐related causes of tagging errors: (1) l…
Finiteness in a language without finite morphology
Treebanks and World Englishes
Treebanks (parsed corpora) play an important role in linguistic research, but creating high-quality parses can be very labor-intensive. This paper discusses the prospects of creating such parses in the context of New Englishes and what kinds of research insights parses can deliver. We present Singapore English as a case study. We suggest that despite the many contact-derived lexical and grammatical properties of Singapore English, it is quite fea…
A nearly exhaustive experimental investigation of bridge effects in English
A nearly exhaustive experimental investigation of bridge effects in English
In many languages, finite-clause-embedding verbs vary in whether they allow wh-dependencies to cross from the embedded to the matrix clause—a phenomenon we call 'bridge effects'. Why bridge effects exist has been the subject of much debate; we argue that contributing to the lack of consensus are the relatively small samples of verbs (from twelve to seventy-five for English) previously tested in the literature. To resolve this issue, we report two…
Overt pronouns in null subject languages
Interpretive differences between overt subject pronouns relative to null subject pronouns are commonly considered a defining property of Consistent Null Subject Languages (CNSLs), in contradistinction to Partial Null Subject Languages (PNSLs). In this article, we present the results of two experimental studies which challenge this view with respect to two environments: variable binding and pronominal coreference (binding) under double embedding. …
The role of phases and specificity in definite islands
Linguistics (9 obras) · Computer Science (8 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (6 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (6 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (5 obras) · Mandarin Chinese (5 obras) · Psychology (5 obras) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 obras) · Mathematics (4 obras)