Verb argument structure overgeneralisations for the English intransitive and transitive constructions: grammaticality judgments and production priming

Amy Bidgood, Julian Pine, Caroline Rowland, Giovanni Sala, Daniel Freudenthal, Ben Ambridge

研究成果: ジャーナルへの寄稿学術論文査読

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We used a multi-method approach to investigate how children avoid (or retreat from) argument structure overgeneralisation errors (e.g., *You giggled me). Experiment 1 investigated how semantic and statistical constraints (preemption and entrenchment) influence children’s and adults’ judgments of the grammatical acceptability of 120 verbs in transitive and intransitive sentences. Experiment 2 used syntactic priming to elicit overgeneralisation errors from children (aged 5–6) to investigate whether the same constraints operate in production. For judgments, the data showed effects of preemption, entrenchment, and semantics for all ages. For production, only an effect of preemption was observed, and only for transitivisation errors with intransitive-only verbs (e.g., *The man laughed the girl). We conclude that preemption, entrenchment, and semantic effects are real, but are obscured by particular features of the present production task.

本文言語英語
ページ(範囲)397-437
ページ数41
ジャーナルLanguage and Cognition
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出版ステータス出版済み - 09-2021

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • 言語および言語学
  • 実験心理学および認知心理学
  • 言語学および言語

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