The Symmetry Condition on Labeling
Takanori Nakashima
October 2023 

This article provides a unified account of freezing effects, wh-island effects, and Proper Binding Condition (PBC) effects in English, based on Chomsky’s (2013, 2015) Labeling Algorithm, especially on the Search Algorithm formally defined by Ke (2019, to appear) and the labeling-based feature valuation mechanism proposed by Epstein, Kitahara, and Seely (2022). This article demonstrates that freezing, wh-island, and PBC effects are produced by extraction that breaks the symmetry between XP-YP structures, which, in effect, barres feature valuation between heads with valued and unvalued features.

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keywords:	minimal search, labeling, freezing effects, wh-island effects, proper biding condition effects
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