Blar i forfatter "Sant, Charlotte"

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    • Comparing Island Effects for Different Dependency Types in Norwegian 

      Kobzeva, Anastasia; Sant, Charlotte; Robbins, Parker T.; Vos, Myrte Titia; Lohndal, Terje; Kush, Dave Whitney (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-07-29)
      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. Some authors argue that cross-dependency variation is more readily accounted for by discourse-functional constraints that take into account the discourse status of both the ...

    • Learning island-insensitivity from the input: A corpus analysis of child- And youth-directed text in norwegian 

      Kush, Dave; Sant, Charlotte; Strætkvern, Sunniva Briså (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-20)
      Norwegian allows filler-gap dependencies into relative clauses (RCs) and embedded questions (EQs) – domains that are usually considered islands in other languages. We conducted a corpus study on youth-directed reading material to assess what direct evidence Norwegian children receive for filler-gap dependencies into islands. Results suggest that the input contains examples of filler-gap dependencies ...