Grammaticality illusions in Czech: A speeded acceptability study of agreement attraction

LACINA, Radim a Jakub DOTLAČIL. Grammaticality illusions in Czech: A speeded acceptability study of agreement attraction. Online. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 46. vyd. 2024.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Grammaticality illusions in Czech: A speeded acceptability study of agreement attraction

Autoři

LACINA, Radim ORCID a Jakub DOTLAČIL

Vydání

46. vyd. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

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Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Stať ve sborníku

Stát vydavatele

Nizozemské království

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

elektronická verze "online"

Odkazy

URL

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ne

Klíčová slova anglicky

agreement attraction, number agreement, Czech, illusions of grammaticality, acceptability judgements

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

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Anotace

V originále

Agreement attraction has been extensively studied in both the production and comprehension of language. In comprehension, it has been found that ungrammatical sentences such as '*The key to the cabinets were rusty' are often judged as acceptable due to the word 'cabinets' that matches the verb in number, but not when the attractor is singular ('cabinet'). This illusion of grammaticality has been documented in many of the world's languages. We report a speeded acceptability judgement experiment that tested the presence of this illusion in Czech. We find that Czech comprehenders notice the ungrammatical agreement pattern reliably, and that their acceptability judgements are affected by the number-match of the attractor. This number agreement attraction effect is however minuscule when compared to what has been reported in the literature on English. We show this in a comparative analysis of our data with those from Wagers et al. (2009).

Přiložené soubory

Lacina_Dotlacil.pdf