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An Illusion of Grammaticality in Wh-Questions

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This paper investigates the lingering effects of wh-question contexts, involving in particular wh-adjuncts and wh-arguments. We present novel evidence that initial interpretations of adjunct wh-phrases can potentially linger in the subsequent parse, thereby ameliorating the acceptability of apparent island violations. Results from the study’s Q/A pair formal acceptability rating experiment reveal that why-questions with attachment ambiguity allow the grammatical alternative parse to “linger”, augmenting acceptability judgments even when a disambiguating answer sentence forces an ungrammatical or less preferred interpretation. From a methodological perspective, this study also illustrates how the linkage between string acceptability and structural well-formedness could potentially fail.

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This paper investigates the lingering effects of wh-question contexts, involving in particular wh-adjuncts and wh-arguments. We present novel evidence that initial interpretations of adjunct wh-phrases can potentially linger in the subsequent parse, thereby ameliorating the acceptability of apparent island violations. Results from the study’s Q/A pair formal acceptability rating experiment reveal that why-questions with attachment ambiguity allow the grammatical alternative parse to “linger”, augmenting acceptability judgments even when a disambiguating answer sentence forces an ungrammatical or less preferred interpretation. From a methodological perspective, this study also illustrates how the linkage between string acceptability and structural well-formedness could potentially fail.

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