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 |