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filled-gap effect: a standalone construct

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Psycholinguistics

slowdown when a position where the parser had posited a gap for a fronted wh-phrase turns out to be filled by an overt noun phrase.

In psycholinguistics, filled-gap effect refers to slowdown when a position where the parser had posited a gap for a fronted wh-phrase turns out to be filled by an overt noun phrase. This meaning comes from Stowe (1986) in Language and Cognitive Processes.[1]

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phrase3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs position3 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Stowe, L. A. (1986). Parsing WH-constructions: Evidence for on-line gap location. Language and Cognitive Processes, 1(3), 227-245. https://doi.org/10.1080/01690968608407062

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