A Meta-analysis of Syntactic Satiation in Extraction from Islands
Jiayi Lu,
Michael Frank,
Judith Degen
Abstract:Sentence acceptability judgments are often affected by a pervasive phenomenon called satiation: native speakers give increasingly higher ratings to initially degraded sentences after repeated exposure. Various studies have investigated the satiation effect experimentally, the vast majority of which focused on different types of island-violating sentences in English (sentences with illicit long-distance syntactic movements). However, mixed findings are reported regarding which types of island violations are aff… Show more
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