Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Kush, Dave Whitney"
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Antecedent accessibility and exceptional covariation: Evidence from Norwegian Donkey Pronouns
Kush, Dave Whitney; Eik, Ragnhild (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)It is generally assumed that interpreting a co-referential or a syntactically-bound pronoun requires retrieving a representation of its antecedent from memory. Donkey pronouns (e.g., Geach 1962) are pronouns that co-vary ... -
Comparing Island Effects for Different Dependency Types in Norwegian
Kobzeva, Anastasia; Sant, Charlotte; Robbins, Parker T.; Vos, Myrte Titia; Lohndal, Terje; Kush, Dave Whitney (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Recent research suggests that island effects may vary as a function of dependency type, potentially challenging accounts that treat island effects as reflecting uniform constraints on all filler-gap dependency formation. ... -
Individual differences in decoding skill, print exposure, and cortical structure in young adults
Johns, Clinton L.; Jahn, Andrew A.; Jones, Hannah R.; Kush, Dave Whitney; Molfese, Peter J.; Van Dyke, Julie A.; Magnuson, James S.; Tabor, Whitney; Mencl, W. Einar; Shankweiler, Donald P.; Braze, David (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This exploratory study investigated relations between individual differences in cortical grey matter structure and young adult readers’ cognitive profiles. Whole-brain analyses revealed neuroanatomical correlations with ... -
Investigating variation in island effects: A case study of Norwegian extraction
Kush, Dave Whitney; Lohndal, Terje; Sprouse, Jonathan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)We present a series of large-scale formal acceptability judgment studies that explored Norwegian island phenomena in order to follow up on previous observations that speakers of Mainland Scandinavian languages like Norwegian ... -
L2 acquisition of agreement morphology: English subject-verb agreement among native Norwegians
Kokvoll, Mali (Master thesis, 2021)Norwegian learners of English struggle with subject-verb agreement, often producing errors well into advanced stages. An Acceptability Judgement Task (AJT) was conducted in order to examine Norwegian speakers (N=28) ... -
Looking forwards and backwards: The real-time processing of Strong and Weak Crossover
Kush, Dave Whitney; Lidz, Jeffrey; Phillips, Colin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)We investigated the processing of pronouns in Strong and Weak Crossover constructions as a means of probing the extent to which the incremental parser can use syntactic information to guide antecedent retrieval. In Experiment ... -
On the Island Sensitivity of Topicalization in Norwegian: An Experimental Investigation
Kush, Dave Whitney; Lohndal, Terje; Sprouse, Jonathan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Mainland Scandinavian languages have been reported to allow movement from embedded questions, relative clauses, and complex NPs—domains commonly considered to be islands crosslinguistically. Yet in formal acceptability ... -
Principle B constrains the processing of cataphora: Evidence for syntactic and discourse predictions
Kush, Dave Whitney; Dillon, Brian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)We tested whether comprehenders can use Binding Principle B (Chomsky, 1981) to guide antecedent search during the processing of cataphoric pronouns. We ran two self-paced reading experiments using the gender mismatch ... -
Processing cataphors: Active antecedent search is persistent
Giskes, Anna; Kush, Dave Whitney (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Cataphors precede their antecedents, so they cannot be fully interpreted until those antecedents are encountered. Some researchers propose that cataphors trigger an active search during incremental processing in which the ... -
Prominence-sensitive pronoun resolution: New evidence from the speed-accuracy tradeoff procedure
Kush, Dave Whitney; Johns, Clinton L.; Van Dyke, Julie A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Past studies have shown that antecedent prominence affects the processing of a pronoun, but these studies have used experimental methodologies that do not make it possible to determine at what stage(s) of pronominal ... -
Spanish embedded question island effects revisited: An experimental study
Pañeda, Claudia; Kush, Dave Whitney (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)It is often reported that embedded questions (EQs) are not syntactic islands in Spanish. However, some authors have observed that the acceptability of filler-gap dependencies (FGDs) into Spanish EQs varies with the ... -
Variation in adjunct islands: The case of Norwegian
Bondevik, Ingrid; Kush, Dave Whitney; Lohndal, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Finite adjunct clauses are often assumed to be among the strongest islands for filler–gap dependency creation cross-linguistically, but Kush, Lohndal & Sprouse (2019) found experimental evidence suggesting that finite ... -
Verb placement in L3 French and L3 German. The role of language-internal factors in determining cross-linguistic influence from prior languages
Busterud, Guro; Dahl, Anne; Kush, Dave Whitney; Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This article explores cross-linguistic influence and the relationship between surface structure and underlying syntactic structure in L3 acquisition of verb placement in L1 Norwegian L2 English learners of L3 German or ...