Dave Kush
University of Toronto
29 Papers
59 Citations
Dave Kush is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Antecedent (grammar) & Norwegian. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 25 publications. Previous affiliations of Dave Kush include Haskins Laboratories & Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
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Relation-sensitive retrieval: Evidence from bound variable pronouns
TL;DR: This article investigated the retrieval of bound variable pronouns, a form of anaphoric dependency that imposes a c-command restriction on antecedent-pronoun relations, and showed that retrieval can make use of relational information as a guide for retrieval, or that the set of features that is used to encode syntactic relations in memory must be enriched.
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Investigating variation in island effects: A case study of Norwegian wh-extraction
TL;DR: A series of large-scale formal acceptability judgment studies that explored Norwegian island phenomena reveal that Norwegians exhibit significant inter-individual variation in their sensitivity to whether-island effects, with many participants exhibiting no sensitivity to either subject or adjunct island violations whatsoever.
Title of dissertation: RESPECTING RELATIONS: MEMORY ACCESS AND ANTECEDENT RETRIEVAL IN INCREMENTAL SENTENCE PROCESSING
Dave Kush,Colin Phillips +1 more
- 01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: The authors used the processing of anaphoric relations to probe how linguistic information is encoded in and retrieved from memory during real-time sentence comprehension, and found that retrieval exhibits fidelity to the constraints: structurally inaccessible NPs that match an anaphorical element in morphological features do not interfere with the retrieval of an antecedent in most cases considered.
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Variation in adjunct islands: The case of Norwegian
TL;DR: This paper found evidence for the absence of strong island effects with topicalization from om-adjuncts in all three experiments, but the size of the effects and the underlying judgment distributions that produce those effects differ greatly by island type.
Local anaphor licensing in an SOV language: implications for retrieval strategies.
Dave Kush,Colin Phillips +1 more
TL;DR: This work investigated the licensing of local anaphors (reciprocals) in Hindi, an SOV language, in order to determine whether pre-verbal anaphor are subject to morphological interference from feature-matching distractors in a way that post-verbalAnaphors are not.