@article{423842,
  author    = {Bader, Markus and Frazier, Lyn},
  journal   = {Linguistics},
  number    = {1},
  pages     = {49-87},
  publisher = {Walter de Gruyter},
  title     = {Interpretation of Leftward-Moved Constituents: Processing Topicalizations in German},
  url       = {http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ling.2005.43.issue-1/ling.2005.43.1.49/ling.2005.43.1.49.xml},
  volume    = {43},
  year      = {2005},
  abstract  = {Five experiments were conducted on German topicalization sentences to explore their interpretation and the relation between the syntactic representation and the discourse representation of the sentence. It is proposed that a DP is rapidly instantiated as a discourse entity in the discourse representation whereas a NP is simply treated as a property. If the postulated discourse entity corresponding to the DP in SpecCP of a topicalized sentence must be retracted due to the occurrence of a later determiner (in split-topicalization) or due to the need to scope under a subsequent quantifier, the sentence should be difficult to process. These predictions were con-firmed in two difficulty judgment experiments and in an experiment where participants selected the first interpretation assigned to a scopally ambiguous sentence involving an adverbial quantifier. However, in a separate experiment, where scope ambiguities involving determiner quantifiers were tested, the preference for the discourse instantiated DP to take wide scope disappeared.},
  doi       = {10.1515/ling.2005.43.1.49},
  inlg      = {English [eng]},
  issn      = {0024-3949},
  lgcode    = {German [deu] (computerized assignment from "german")},
  src       = {degruyter}
}