Complex-NP Islands in Korean: An Experimental Approach
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This paper took an experimental approach and examined island constraints in Korean. Among many island constraints, this study took a Complex NP island constraint, and the experiment was designed with 3 related factors: presence vs. absence of island, matrix clause vs. embedded clause, and scrambling. The analysis results illustrated that the presence/absence of complex NP island did not play a role by itself in Korean but that it made distinctions through the interactions with other factor such as matrix vs. embedded clause.
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