{"id":7264,"date":"2015-04-21T04:59:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T08:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=7264"},"modified":"2015-04-21T02:20:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T06:20:26","slug":"colloquium-424-ming-xiang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2015\/04\/21\/colloquium-424-ming-xiang\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium 4\/24 - Ming Xiang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/lucian.uchicago.edu\/blogs\/mingxiang\/\"><strong>Ming Xiang<\/strong><\/a> (University of Chicago)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Parsing covert dependencies\u0097the case of Mandarin wh-in-situ constructions<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nDate: Friday, April 24th<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: 3:30-5:00p<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nPlace: 32-141<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While modeling cross-linguistic structural variations, linguistic analyses sometimes postulate abstract \u0093covert\u0094 representations that do not have any morpho-phonological reflexes in the surface word string. Little is known as to whether and how such representations are constructed in language comprehension and production. In this talk, I will examine the processing of Mandarin wh-in-situ questions. Drawing on data from production, eyetracking-reading, and the speed-accuracy tradeoff paradigm, I will address two questions: (i) Does the parser construct a covert non-local syntactic dependency in processing? (ii) What is the parsing mechanism that supports such non-local dependencies? In particular, how is a \u0093silent\u0094 scope position retrieved from memory? The current data suggests that the parser indeed constructs a covert dependency in real time processing, but the retrieval of the scope position is supported by two distinct (maybe simultaneous) mechanisms: one that relies on associative cue-based memory retrieval, and the other (cyclically) searches through intermediate clause edge positions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Ming Xiang (University of Chicago) Title: Parsing covert dependencies\u0097the case of Mandarin wh-in-situ constructions Date: Friday, April 24th Time: 3:30-5:00p Place: 32-141 While modeling cross-linguistic structural variations, linguistic analyses sometimes postulate abstract \u0093covert\u0094 representations that do not have any morpho-phonological reflexes in the surface word string. Little is known as to whether and how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7265,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264\/revisions\/7265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}