Abstract We fuse two recent strands of work in subregular linguistics—probabilistic tier projections (Mayer, 2021) and tier-based perspectives on movement (Graf, 2022a)—into a probabilistic model of syntax that makes it easy to add gradience to traditional, categorical analyses from the syntactic literature. As a case study, we test this model on experimental data from Sprouse et al. (2016) for a number of island effects in English. We show that the model correctly replicates the superadditive effects and gradience that have been observed in the psycholinguistic literature.
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@misc{TorresEtAl23SCiLtalk,
author = {Torres, Charles and Hanson, Kenneth and Graf, Thomas and Mayer, Connor},
author+an = {1=student;2=sbu},
title = {Modeling Island Effects With Probabilistic Tier-Based Strictly Local Grammars Over Trees},
year = {2023},
note = {Slides of a talk given at \emph{{SCiL} 2023}, June 15--17, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts},
}