Syntactic Parsing Strategies In Italian: The Minimal Chain Principle (studies In Theoretical Psycholinguistics)

Maxfield, T. L. and McDaniel, D.: in prep., 'What do children know without learning', in Plunkett, B. and Maxfield, T. L. (Eds.) The Acquisition of WH-Movement. Front Matter....Pages i-xxv Introduction....Pages 1-29 Experiment 1: Declaratives with Post-Verbal Subject....Pages 30-41 Experiment 2: The Cost of Chains in Parsing: Processing Declaratives with Unaccusative or Unergative Verbs....Pages 42-71 Experiment 3: Referential and Non-Referential Wh-Dependencies....Pages 72-103 Experiment 4: Wh-Questions with Post-Clausal Disambiguation....Pages 104-123 Experiment 5: The Minimal Chain Principle and the Grammar of the Language....Pages 124-139 General Discussion....Pages 140-164 Back Matter....Pages 165-223