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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Syntactic Processing

Background:

  • Backward sluicing and wh-filler-gap dependencies share superficial similarities in processing.
  • Previous research indicates wh-filler-gap dependency processing is sensitive to syntactic structure (CP vs. NP).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the processing of ellipsis sites in backward sluicing.
  • To determine if backward sluicing processing is sensitive to syntactic structure, like wh-filler-gap dependencies.

Main Methods:

  • Two maze experiments were conducted.
  • Experimental design focused on syntactic structures within dependencies.

Main Results:

  • Backward sluicing processing was found to be sensitive to the same structural factors as wh-filler-gap dependencies.
  • This sensitivity confirms a shared processing mechanism for both constructions.

Conclusions:

  • A unified processing mechanism, likely involving an active search, underlies both backward sluicing and wh-filler-gap dependencies.
  • An ellipsis-specific mechanism, potentially word-by-word copying, interacts with the general mechanism to build antecedent structure incrementally.