How Do People Produce Ungrammatical Utterances?

Autor/inn/en	Ivanova, Iva; Pickering, Martin J.; McLean, Janet F.; Costa, Albert; Branigan, Holly P.
Titel	How Do People Produce Ungrammatical Utterances?
Quelle	In: Journal of Memory and Language, 67 (2012) 3, S.355-370 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0749-596X
DOI	10.1016/j.jml.2012.06.003
Schlagwörter	Language Processing; Persistence; Grammar; Priming; Sentences; Verbs; Language Usage; Language Research + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachverarbeitung; Ausdauer; Grammatik; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Sprachgebrauch; Sprachforschung
Abstract	We investigate whether people might come to produce utterances that they regard as ungrammatical by examining the production of ungrammatical verb-construction combinations (e.g., "The dancer donates the soldier the apple") after exposure to both grammatical and ungrammatical sentences. We contrast two accounts of how such production might take place: an abstract structural persistence account, according to which it is caused by increased activation of an abstract structural rule; and a lexically-driven persistence account, according to which it requires previous exposure to the same (ungrammatical) verb-construction combination. In four structural priming experiments, we found that sentences with ungrammatical verb-construction combinations were produced only after exposure to similar ungrammatical exemplars containing the same verb, but not after such sentences with a different verb, or grammatical sentences with the same construction. These results indicate that people can produce sentences with ungrammatical verb-construction combinations after brief exposure to related sentences, and provide support for the lexically-driven persistence account of such production. (Contains 9 tables and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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