A test of the relation between working-memory capacity and syntactic island effects

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Experimental syntax and the variation of island effects in English and Italian (2016, methodology): “Given that subject islands with English wh-dependencies have demonstrated significant interactions in at least three previous studies (Sprouse 2007, Sprouse et al. 2011, and Sprouse et al. 2012), we take this nearly-significant result to be a consequence of the modified factorial design used here.”
The logic of syntactic priming and acceptability judgments (2016, unknown): “Sprouse, Wagers, and Phillips (2012) found that the acceptability of sentences violating island constraints (e.g., *What do you wonder whether John bought?) is unrelated to measures of working-memory capacity, and therefore argued that such island constraints are likely to constitute part of…”
Assessing the reliability of textbook data in syntax: Adger's Core Syntax1 (2012, background): “…failed to reach significance; and like the previous example, given that there are several instances of Subject islands that have been experimentally confirmed in the literature (see Sprouse 2011 and Sprouse et al. 2012 for simple Subject islands), we believe that this is likely a false negative.”