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    "pk": 49265,
    "title": "Islands Result from Clash of Functions: Single-conjunct Wh-Qs",
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    "abstract": "When we produce utterances, we aim to express our message in a coherent way. While listeners generally prefer semantically related constituents to be close together in the string (\"local\"), certain constructions allow long-distance dependencies (LLDs). There is growing evidence that constraints on LDDs involve information structure, but conjunction is recognized to require its own unique constraints. Here we offer 4 experimental studies aimed to illuminate why conjunctions resist LDDs, by investigating a particular case experimentally in detail: English wh-questions that query only the final conjunct in verb phrase conjunction. The first two studies demonstrate that gradient acceptability is predicted by the extent to which a conjunction expresses a single complex event rather than two separate events. Exp. 3 demonstrates a role for the information structure constraint that holds of LDDs generally: more prominent (less backgrounded) conjuncts combine with wh-questions more easily. A final experiment manipulates construal as a single event and the prominence of a conjunct. Results demonstrate an additive causal role for both factors.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Linguistics; Psychology; Discourse; Event cognition; Pragmatics; Survey"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1nj0n556",
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        {
            "first_name": "Abigail",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Fergus",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Princeton University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Arielle",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Belluck",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Princeton University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Nicole",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Cuneo",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Princeton University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Adele",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Goldberg",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Princeton University",
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        }
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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