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Do you what I say? People reconstruct the syntax of anomalous utterances
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Author:
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Ivanova, Iva; Branigan, Holly P.; McLean, Janet F.; Costa, Albert, 1970-; Pickering, Martin J.
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Abstract:
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We frequently experience and successfully process anomalous utterances. Here we examine whether people do this by “correcting” syntactic anomalies to yield well-formed representations. In two structural priming experiments, participants’ syntactic choices in picture description were influenced as strongly by previously comprehended anomalous (missing-verb) prime sentences as by well-formed prime sentences. Our results suggest that comprehenders can reconstruct the constituent structure of anomalous utterances – even when such utterances lack a major structural component such as the verb. These results also imply that structural alignment in dialogue is unaffected if one interlocutor produces anomalous utterances. |
Abstract:
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We acknowledge Spanish Government grants PSI 2008-01191/PSIC and Consolider Ingenio-2010 CE-CSD2007-00121, and pre-doctoral scholarship FPU-AP2005-4496 (II); Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) grant RES-062-23-0376; a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship (HPB); and National Institutes of Health R01 grants HD050287, HD051030, and DC011492. |
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-Language comprehension -Sentence processing -Structural priming -Missing verbs |
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© Taylor & Francis. This is an electronic version of an article published in "Ivanova I, Branigan HP, McLean JF, Costa A, Pickering MJ. Do you what I say? People reconstruct the syntax of anomalous utterances. Lang Cogn Neurosci. 2017;32(2): 175-89". Language, Cognition and Neuroscience is available online at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23273798.2016.1236976
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Document type:
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Article Article - Accepted version |
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Taylor & Francis
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