One of the main discoveries of generative syntax is that long‐distance extraction proceeds in a successive‐cyclic manner, in that these dependencies are comprised of a sequence of local extraction steps. This article provides support for this general picture by presenting novel parsing evidence for intermediate landing sites created by successive‐cyclic movement, and it uses this parsing evidence to investigate the distribution of intermediate gaps. The central findings of this article are that (i) there is evidence that successive‐cyclic movement targets the edge of CPs and that (ii) there is no comparable evidence for an intermediate landing site at vP edges. These findings are fully consistent with the classical view of successive cyclicity, according to which only finite‐clause edges host intermediate landing sites. In the context of phase theory, these results receive a straightforward explanation if CPs are phases but vPs are not. The processing evidence presented here thus provides a novel diagnostic for the distribution of phases and new evidence for their active role in online sentence processing.

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语法中的局部域：来自句子处理的证据

生成语法的主要发现之一是长距离提取以连续循环的方式进行，因为这些依赖项由一系列局部提取步骤组成。本文通过介绍由连续周期运动产生的中间着陆点的新颖解析证据，为这一总体情况提供了支持，并使用该解析证据来调查中间间隙的分布。本文的主要发现是（i）有证据表明连续循环运动以CP的边缘为目标，并且（ii）没有可比较的证据表明vP边缘有一个中间着陆点。这些发现与连续周期性的经典观点完全一致，根据这种观点，只有有限子句边包含着陆点。在阶段理论的背景下，如果CP是阶段而vP不是阶段，则这些结果将得到直接的解释。因此，此处介绍的处理证据为阶段的分布提供了一种新颖的诊断方法，并为其在在线句子处理中的积极作用提供了新的证据。