Description: Leading linguists and psycholinguists use cutting-edge experimental techniques to investigate one of the central phenomena of linguistics, 'island effects'.
Brief description: Jon Sprouse is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut.
Review Quotes: 'This important collection of papers demonstrates the utility of experimental syntax by elucidating the debate about the nature and source of syntactic island effects concerning the interaction of the grammar and the processor, thereby providing an excellent introduction to a new avenue for syntactic research.' Robert Freidin, Princeton University, New Jersey