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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

A Structural Principle of Language and Its Implications

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Lehmann, W. P. – Language, 1973

Research on which portions of this study are based was performed under a National Science Foundation Grant and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. (VM)

Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Classification, Language Patterns, Language Typology