A Processing Approach to Complex NP Island Effects in Korean
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Questioning the syntactic assumptions of Island Effects on movement operations, this paper investigates, through an acceptability judgment experiment of Korean native speakers, whether wh-in-situ questions in Korean show Complex NP Islands Effects and if so, what causes them. The results of the experiment indicate that the acceptability of wh-in-situ questions with a CNPC violation in Korean shows a wide range of variation and that factors such as distance and referential specificity affect their acceptability. Given that these results cannot be adequately explained by the purely syntactic approach to islands and that similar facts have been taken as the evidence for the processing nature of island effects in overt wh-movement languages, we interpret them as showing the processing nature of CNP Island Effects of wh-in-situ questions in Korean. As for the claim that wh-in-situ questions in Korean do not show CNP Island Effects unlike overt wh-movement questions, commonly made and accepted in the syntactic literature, we suggest that the difference in Island Effects can arise from the differences in the processing costs of overt wh-movement questions and wh-in-situ questions.
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Questioning the syntactic assumptions of Island Effects on movement operations, this paper investigates, through an acceptability judgment experiment of Korean native speakers, whether wh-in-situ questions in Korean show Complex NP Islands Effects and if so, what causes them. The results of the experiment indicate that the acceptability of wh-in-situ questions with a CNPC violation in Korean shows a wide range of variation and that factors such as distance and referential specificity affect their acceptability. Given that these results cannot be adequately explained by the purely syntactic approach to islands and that similar facts have been taken as the evidence for the processing nature of island effects in overt wh-movement languages, we interpret them as showing the processing nature of CNP Island Effects of wh-in-situ questions in Korean. As for the claim that wh-in-situ questions in Korean do not show CNP Island Effects unlike overt wh-movement questions, commonly made and accepted in the syntactic literature, we suggest that the difference in Island Effects can arise from the differences in the processing costs of overt wh-movement questions and wh-in-situ questions.
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