The Real-Time Status of Island Phenomena
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2991807 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Colin Phillips (0000-0002-3886-3384, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 795-823 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/lan.2006.0217 |
| OpenAlex | W2113824248 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 65 |
| References cited | 35 |
In parasitic-gap constructions an illicit gap inside a syntactic island becomes acceptable in combination with an additional licit gap, a result that has interesting implications for theories of grammar. Such constructions hold even greater interest for the question of the relation between grammatical knowledge and real-time language processing. This article presents results from two experiments on parasitic-gap constructions in English in which the parasitic gap appears inside a subject island, before the licensing gap. An off-line studyconfirms that parasitic gaps are acceptable when theyoccur inside the infinitival complement of a subject NP, but not when they occur inside a finite relative clause. An on-line self-paced reading studyusing a plausibility manipulation technique shows that incremental positing of gaps inside islands occurs in just those environments where parasitic gaps are acceptable. The fact that parasitic gaps are constructed incrementallyin language processing presents a challenge for attempts to explain subject islands as epiphenomena of constraints on language processing and also helps to resolve apparent conflicts in previous studies of the role of island constraints in parsing
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The real-time comprehension of WH-dependencies in a WH-agreement language
Active dependency formation in islands
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Filler-Gap Dependencies and Island Constraints in Second-Language Sentence Processing
The Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis
The Oxford Handbook of English Grammar
The Empirical Base of Linguistics
Acceptability and processing of long-distance dependencies in Danish
Island effects in Spanish comprehension
Investigating the relationship between individual differences and island sensitivity
When missing NPs make double center-embedding sentences acceptable
Active Gap Filling and Island Constraint in Processing the Mandarin “Gap-Type” Topic Structure
The mental representation of universal quantifiers
Extraction from subjects
A self-organized sentence processing theory of gradience
Shared syntax between comprehension and production
The discourse functions of grammatical constructions explain an enduring syntactic puzzle
Subject islands do not reduce to construction-specific discourse function
Proximity Loses
Three open questions in experimental syntax
The role of language processing in language acquisition
Attentional control and prediction in native and non-native speakers
Grammatical constraints and reductionism in sentence processing
Structural, Functional, and Processing Perspectives on Linguistic Island Effects
Nonsyntactic Explanations of Island Constraints
Resumptive Pronouns in Language Comprehension and Production
Constructions on holiday
A test of the relation between working-memory capacity and syntactic island effects
Working-memory capacity and island effects
Processing bound-variable singular they
Anomaly detection in the processing of complex syntax by early L2 learners
Island sensitivity in L2 learners
Examining the source of island effects in native speakers and second language learners of English
The role of resumption in the acquisition of European Portuguese prepositional relative clauses by Chinese learners
Filler-gap dependencies in bi- and multilingual grammars
Comparing syntactic and discourse accounts of islands and parasitic gaps
Cognitive constraints and island effects
Three conceptual clarifications about syntax and the brain
Lexical vs. structural cue use in L2 prediction
Does headedness affect processing? A new look at the VO–OV contrast
Frequency effects in Subject Islands
An expectation-based account of subject islands and parasitism
Filler–gap dependencies and the remnant–correlate dependency in backward sprouting
Multiple dependencies and the role of the grammar in real-time comprehension
Interference in the formation of filler-gap dependencies
Parasitic Gaps licensed by elided syntactic structure
A processing-based account of subliminal wh-island effects
Investigating variation in island effects
Effects of Long-Term Language Use Experience in Sentence Processing
Using Computational Models to Test Syntactic Learnability
The Radical Unacceptability Hypothesis
On Directionality of Phrase Structure Building
Aligning Grammatical Theories and Language Processing Models
Incremental Processing of Coreference and Binding in Japanese
Spanish embedded question island effects revisited
Experimental Methods for Linguists
Islands
Effects of Processing on the Acceptability of "Frozen" Extraposed Constituents
Locality Domains in Syntax
Resumption Still Does Not Rescue Islands
Sentence Comprehension
The independence of syntactic processing
Sentence processing without empty categories
Parasitic gaps
Parsing WH-constructions
Filler driven parsing
Plausibility and the Processing of Unbounded Dependencies
The P600 as an index of syntactic integration difficulty
Subjacency as a processing phenomenon
Syntactically Based Sentence Processing Classes
Syntax
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory
Limits to attention
Linguistic Theory and Psychological Reality
Another Look at the Role of Empty Categories in Sentence Processing (and Grammar)
The role of structure in coreference assignment during sentence comprehension
Evoked potentials and the study of sentence comprehension
The Syntactic Process
Linear Order and Constituency
Processing Complexity and Filler-Gap Dependencies across Grammars
| Unique citing works | 65 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,32 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2026 (29) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 58 |