Pooter, Grietje de (2025) Exploring Long-Distance Dependencies in Dutch: The Role of ‘Waar’ and ‘Er’. Bachelor's Thesis, Artificial Intelligence.
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Abstract
Extensive research has been done on the long-distance dependency (LDD) that English WH-phrases create when taking the role of a grammatical function in an English sentence, leaving behind a syntactic gap and causing difficulty with processing the sentence. While this effect has been found in English and other languages, it has not been found in Dutch between the WH-phrase waar and a syntactic gap, and pronominal er and a syntactic gap. This research focused on trying to find a slowdown in reading speed at the gap created by waar and er compared to a baseline sentence using a self-paced reading task (SPRT), to argue for the existence of an LDD between waar and er and the respective syntactic gaps. A likelihood ratio test using a linear mixed effects model did not find any significant effect of waar or er on the reading speed at the gap. The results on the lack of an existence of an LDD with er may indicate a true null result, where researching alternative effects for both waar and er may provide different insights.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor's Thesis) |
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| Supervisor name: | Jones, S.M. |
| Degree programme: | Artificial Intelligence |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Feb 2025 08:02 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Feb 2025 08:02 |
| URI: | https://fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/34652 |
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