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Evidence for On-line Gap Location in WH-Questions by Samira Bulchandani is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document summarizes two experiments that investigate how people parse WH-questions in English. The first experiment replicates previous research finding that reading times are longer at the object noun phrase in a WH-question compared to a declarative sentence, suggesting people initially expect a gap in the object position when encountering a WH-phrase. The second experiment found that people do not mistakenly assume gaps can occur in positions prohibited by syntactic constraints. Overall, the researc

Author

Samira Bulchandani

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EN