Syntactic knowledge involves not only the ability to combine words and phrases, but also the capacity to relate different and yet truth-preserving structural variations (e.g. passivization, inversion, topicalization, extraposition, …
Frequency plays a central role in human cognition, and in language processing in particular. There is growing evidence that acceptability judgements are shaped by the statistics of the input. In this paper, we focus on a type of constraint operative …