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This dissertation is concerned with the cognitive mechanisms that are used to encode and navigate linguistic structure. Successful language understanding requires mechanisms for efficiently encoding and navigating linguistic structure in memory. The timing and accuracy of lingui…

The focus of this thesis is to determine what factors predict zero anaphora in Meithei. The data for this thesis is derived from pear stories. Arguments were tabulated in spreadsheets counting nouns, pronouns, and zero anaphors; they were also examined for their semantic role an…

This thesis investigates the properties of three different aspects of Turkish grammar. First, starting with the basic assumption that derivational morphology is confined to the lexicon, it is claimed that thematic structure is distinct from the argument structure and that deriva…