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| Title: | Pre-verbal Structure Building in Romance Languages and Basque |
| Authors: | Pablos, Leticia |
| Advisors: | Phillips, Colin
Uriagereka, Juan |
| Department/Program: | Linguistics |
| Type: | Dissertation |
| Sponsors: | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) |
| Keywords: | Language, Linguistics (0290)
Psychology, Cognitive (0633)
Psychology, Experimental (0623)
CLLD; clitic; Spanish; active search;sentence processing;garden path |
| Issue Date: | 4-Aug-2006 |
| Abstract: | The main goal of the work in this dissertation is to investigate pre-verbal structure building effects in languages with different configurations such as Spanish, Galician and Basque, by means of using different pre-verbal cues in order to show that syntactic structure can be both interpreted and anticipated before the verbal head.
I examine the syntax of Clitic-Left Dislocations (CLLDs) and other kinds of left-dislocations in Spanish and then analyze their processing. I concentrate on the use of clitic pronouns in Spanish and Galician in CLLD constructions that require the presence of the clitic pronoun to interpret the left-dislocated phrase and where I examine if this left-dislocation is interpreted at the clitic pronoun. Experimental results from three self-paced reading experiments provide evidence that the clitic in these constructions is required and used to interpret the thematic features of the topicalized NP before the verb. Thus, I demonstrate that clitic pronouns are used... |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3884 |
| Appears in Collections: | Linguistics Theses and Dissertations
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