Hierarchical Representation in Neural Language Models: Suppression and Recovery of Expectations by Wilcox, Ethan, Levy, Roger P, Futrell, Richard

“…We study two natural language phenomena: center embedding sentences and syntactic island constraints on the filler–gap dependency. …”
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Extraction from subjects: Differences in acceptability depend on the discourse function of the construction by Abeillé, Anne, Hemforth, Barbara, Winckel, Elodie, Gibson, Edward A

“…In order to explain the unacceptability of certain long-distance dependencies – termed syntactic islands by Ross (1967) – syntacticians proposed constraints on long-distance dependencies which are universal and purely syntactic and thus not dependent on the meaning of the construction (Chomsky, 1977; Chomsky, 1995 a.o.). …”
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