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45.1 Linguistics and psycholinguistics 45.1 Linguistics and psycholinguistics
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45.2 Linguistic analyses of long-distance dependencies: a primer 45.2 Linguistic analyses of long-distance dependencies: a primer
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45.2.1 Getting started 45.2.1 Getting started
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45.2.2 Competing accounts of long-distance dependencies. 45.2.2 Competing accounts of long-distance dependencies.
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45.2.2.1 Transformational accounts 45.2.2.1 Transformational accounts
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45.2.2.2 Transformations with traces 45.2.2.2 Transformations with traces
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45.2.2.3 Path marking with category labels 45.2.2.3 Path marking with category labels
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45.2.2.4 Beyond constituency 45.2.2.4 Beyond constituency
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45.3 Long-distance dependencies and the status of gaps 45.3 Long-distance dependencies and the status of gaps
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45.4 Experimental studies of constraints on dependencies 45.4 Experimental studies of constraints on dependencies
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45.4.1 Island constraints 45.4.1 Island constraints
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45.4.2 The timing of island constraints 45.4.2 The timing of island constraints
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45.4.3 The origin of island constraints 45.4.3 The origin of island constraints
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45.5 Conclusion 45.5 Conclusion
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Acknowledgements Acknowledgements
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45 Relating structure and time in linguistics and psycholinguistics
Get accessColin Phillips is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, where he also directs the Maryland Language Science Center. His research interests are in psycholinguistics, cognitive neuroscience, language acquisition, comparative linguistics, and in iinterdisciplinary graduate education. He holds a BA in Modern Languages from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Published:18 September 2012
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Abstract
The field of psycholinguistics advertises its mentalistic commitments in its name. The field of linguistics does not. Psycholinguistic research frequently involves ingenious experimental designs, fancy lab equipment such as eye-trackers or electroencephalograms, large groups of experimental subjects, and detailed statistical analyses. Linguistic research typically requires no specialized equipment, no statistical analyses, and somewhere between zero and a handful of cooperative informants. This article examines issues in the representation of unbounded syntactic dependencies, as a case study of what psycholinguistic methods can and cannot tell us about linguistic questions, and vice versa. The status of constraints on long-distance dependencies, such as the ban on dependencies that span relative clause boundaries, is a major topic of linguistic research. This article discusses the effects of such constraints on language processing, and their implications for the relation between linguistic and psycholinguistic models. It reviews experimental studies of island constraints on dependencies.
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