An Experimental Study on Scrambling out of Islands: To the Left and to the Right

Ko, Heejeong; Chung, Han-byul; Kim, Kitaek; Sprouse, Jon (2019), “An Experimental Study on Scrambling out of Islands: To the Left and to the Right,” Language & Information Society 37. This paper presents an experimental study to examine whether scrambling out of an island is (im-)possible in Korean. It is shown that scrambling out of an island may trigger occasional additive degradation in acceptability, but no super-additive degradation is obtained in leftward or rightward scrambling (or right-dislocation), contrary to wh-movement in English. Our results also show that strong islands may cause additive degradation whereas weak islands do not. The current study poses a new challenge to a processing approach to islands which solely relies on linear