This paper reports three experiments concerning variation in the grammar of German wh-questions. We found much variation but no clear dialects in the acceptability ratings of sentences violating the weak crossover condition. We attribute this variation to extra-grammatical factors. With a sentence completion task, we were able to show that there is regional variation concerning the scope of wh-movement. In a training experiment, we were also able to make speakers of the restrictive dialect behave like speakers of the liberal dialect with respect to wh-movement. We argue that this suggests an extragrammatical explanation of the dialectal difference.
2021. Question-sensitive discourse particles at the interfaces of syntax, semantics and pragmatics – an experimental approach. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 6:1
Häussler, Jana & Tom S. Juzek
2021. Variation in Participants and Stimuli in Acceptability Experiments. In The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Syntax, ► pp. 97 ff.
Kroczek, Leon O H & Thomas C Gunter
2020. Distinct Neural Networks Relate to Common and Speaker-Specific Language Priors. Cerebral Cortex Communications 1:1
van Urk, Coppe
2018. Pronoun copying in Dinka Bor and the Copy Theory of Movement. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 36:3 ► pp. 937 ff.
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