Abstract
The cause of island effects has evoked considerable debate within syntax and other fields of linguistics. The two competing approaches stand out: the grammatical analysis; and the working-memory (WM)-based processing analysis. In this paper we report three experiments designed to test one of the premises of the WM-based processing analysis: that the strength of island effects should vary as a function of individual differences in WM capacity. The results show that island effects present even for L2 learners are more likely attributed to grammatical constraints than to limited processing resources.
Original language | English |
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Pages | 422-430 |
Number of pages | 9 |
State | Published - 2015 |
Event | 29th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2015 - Shanghai, China Duration: 30 Oct 2015 → 1 Nov 2015 |
Conference
Conference | 29th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2015 |
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Country/Territory | China |
City | Shanghai |
Period | 30/10/15 → 1/11/15 |