The P600 is an event-related brain potential (ERP) typically associated with the processing of grammatical anomalies or incongruities. A similar response has also been observed in fully acceptable long-distance wh-dependencies. Such findings raise the question of whether these ERP responses reflect common underlying processes, and what might be the specific mechanisms that are shared between su...

The present study aimed at investigating the possible impact ofZone of Proximal Development (ZPD) on the learners’ performance. Forty-sixIranian university students participated in this study by taking two types of readingcomprehension tests (i.e., the main idea and Wh-question type). The researchersused the Winstep program to analyze the data and estimate the learners’ Raschmeasure in pre, pos...

The present research utilized aspects of the Principles and Parameters Approach (P&PA; Chomsky, 1991, 1993) in linguistic theory as well as findings from the psycholinguistic literature as a basis for examining sentence production in aphasic individuals. We examined the production of particular wh-movement constructions--wh-questions requiring movement of an argument noun phrase (i.e., who and ...

the present study investigates azari-turkish wh-words within the framework of minimalism. the analysis of wh-in-situ data shows that [+q] &ki;/kïparticle are syntactically in complementary distribution in azari-turkish. when a wh-word is bound by [+q] in c-position, it is interpreted as interrogative element. if, on the other hand, the wh-word is bound by ki/kïparticle which appears in c-positi...

Korean has so-called indeterminate words (cf. Kuroda 1965) that can be used as either interrogatives or indefinites depending on the context. For instance, the indeterminate word nwukwu is ambiguous between an interrogative reading ‘who’ and an indefinite reading ‘someone’. Thus the sentence in (1) has three different interpretations: i) an assertion with an indefinite, ii) a yes-no question wi...

The current study used head mounted eyetracking to examine the time course and nature of processing filler-gap relations in wh-questions, and the role of verb argument frame information. Subjects listened to a short narrative while viewing pictures of entities mentioned in the story and answered an auditorily presented question; eye movements in response to these questions were recorded. In Exp...