How Linguistic Exposure Modulates the Acceptability of Long-Distance Dependencies
A central and still contested question in linguistics is “What makes a sentence good?” This thesis looks into one possible answer: the more you hear it, the better it sounds. More specifically, we are investigating what influences the acceptability of a certain type of long-distance, so-called ‘fill...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2022
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/143305 |