Abstract
We present two magnitude estimation experiments on the role
of resumptive pronouns in subject extraction in English and
German. In the theoretical literature, resumptives have been
claimed to remedy effects of island violations, but our results
show that this is not the case. Furthermore, our data also con-
firm the existence of a that-trace effect for both languages, contrary
to theoretical claims that this effect is not present in German.
On a methodological level, our study demonstrates the
importance of controlled experiments for obtaining theoretically
crucial linguistic judgments, and the potential of the magnitude
estimation paradigm for crosslinguistic comparisons.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society |
| Pages | 1120-1125 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Publication status | Published - 2005 |