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THE SYNTAX-DISCOURSE DIVIDE: PROCESSING ELLIPSIS.

Lyn Frazier1, Charles Clifton

  • 1University of Massachusetts, Department of Linguistics, 226 South College, Amherst, MA 01003, USA, lyn@linguist.umass.edu.

Syntax (Oxford, England)
|March 16, 2007
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This study investigates how people understand VP-ellipsis and sluicing, showing that sentence structure influences comprehension and that discourse processing differs from syntactic processing.

Area of Science:

  • Linguistics
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • VP-ellipsis and sluicing are sentence-level ellipsis types.
  • Understanding these phenomena requires integrating syntactic and discourse information.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the syntactic structure of elided material.
  • To explore the relationship between syntactic and discourse processing in ellipsis.
  • To examine how island constraints interact with ellipsis resolution.

Main Methods:

  • Comprehension studies were conducted.
  • Hypotheses regarding syntactic structure and discourse accessibility were tested.

Main Results:

  • Evidence supports syntactically structured representations of elided material.

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  • Discourse processing prioritizes recent, lower syntactic material, unlike syntactic processing.
  • Ellipsis resolution shows complex interactions with syntactic island constraints.

    • Conclusions:

    • Syntactic structure plays a key role in processing VP-ellipsis and sluicing.
    • Discourse and syntactic processing mechanisms for ellipsis differ.
    • A novel explanation for sluicing grammaticality with relative-clause islands is proposed.