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Demonstrating that the That-Trace Effect and the Island Boundary-Gap Effect are the same with Psychometrics
Date created: 2020-06-15 04:10 AM | Last Updated: 2021-05-18 09:45 PM
Identifier: DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/FN5AT
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Description: Here, psychometric methods are employed in conjunction with Null Hypothesis Significance Testing to address a long-standing puzzle: why gaps in subject position are more acceptable than gaps in object position in non-islands, but less acceptable than gaps in object position in islands. Attempts at explaining this asymmetry generally assume it reflects the same constraint that renders gaps after overt complementizers unacceptable -- the "that-trace" effect. There is, however, no a priori reason to believe these two phenomena should be unified. Here, individual differences in sensitivity to the two effects are measured in a psychometric paradigm to demonstrate that they derive from the same underlying constraint.
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