Processing of different kind of fillers: Reactivated fillers vs. active fillers

Kim, N., Brehm, L., Sturt, P., & Yoshida, M. (2019). Processing of different kind of fillers: Reactivated fillers vs. active fillers. Talk presented at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. New York, NY, USA. 2019-01-03 - 2019-01-06.
Online wh-filler-gap dependency resolution can be characterized by the maintenance of the wh-filler, an active search for the gap and the retrieval of the wh-filler at the gap site (Wagers & Phillips 14). This study tested how wh-fillers are maintained in memory in two different WhFGD formations: "reactivated" WhFGD formation (the filler that is linked to the verb once, and is reactivated later) and "active" WhFGD formation.Taken together, information associated with the wh-filler is maintained when there is no need to reactivate the filler subsequent to the first gap, leading to the retrieval of detailed information and stronger agreement attraction.
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2019

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