Local and Universal

Nino Grillo

Local and Universal

Language and Linguistic Science

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Abstract

Cuetos and Mitchell 1988, and much subsequent work, report that speakers of different languages differ in Relative Clause attachment preferences in complex NPs. These findings challenged universal theories of processing and in particular the universality of locality in parsing. In this paper, I argue that asymmetries in attachment preference stem from a previously unnoticed grammatical distinction: the availability of Pseudo Relatives. Drawing on previous data and novel results, I conclude that Locality is a genuine universal principle of processing.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Enjoy Linguistics!
Subtitle of host publication	Papers offered to Luigi Rizzi on the occasion of his 60th birthday
Editors	Valentina Bianchi, Cristiano Chesi
Place of Publication	Siena
Publisher	CISCL Press
Pages	234-245
Publication status	Published - 2012

Keywords

Sentence Processing
Memory
Locality
Universality of Parsing
Relative Clause Attachment
Pseudo Relatives

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