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Processing Complexity and Filler-Gap Dependencies Across Grammars.
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Hawkins, John A. – Language, 1999
Examines crosslinguistic variation in "filler-gap dependencies" (wh-questions and relative clauses) from a processing perspective, and integrates research findings from psycholinguistics, language typology, and generative grammar. Numerous implicational universals and hierarchies are proposed that receive a natural explanation in terms…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Processing, Language Research, Language Typology