Constituent Order and Acceptability

2021 ◽  
pp. 315-340
Author(s):  
Thomas Weskott
Keyword(s):  
Constituent Order

SPEVAK, OLGA: Constituent Order in Classical Latin Prose.

Kratylos ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-156
Author(s):  
G. Keydana
Keyword(s):  
Constituent Order

Primary Auditory Stream Segregation of Repeated Word Sequences

1976 ◽  
Vol 42 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1071-1074 ◽  
Author(s):  
Betty Tuller ◽  
James R. Lackner
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Separation ◽  
Repeated Sequences ◽  
Stream Segregation ◽  
Natural Speech ◽  
Auditory Stream ◽  
Auditory Stream Segregation ◽  
Repeated Word ◽  
Auditory Sequence ◽  
Constituent Order

Primary auditory stream segregation, the perceptual segregation of acoustically related elements within a continuous auditory sequence into distinct spatial streams, prevents subjects from resolving the relative constituent order of repeated sequences of tones (Bregman & Campbell, 1971) or repeated sequences of consonant and vowel sounds (Lackner & Goldstein, 1974). To determine why primary auditory stream segregation does not interfere with the resolution of natural speech, 8 subjects were required to indicate the degree of stream segregation undergone by 24 repeated sequences of English monosyllables which varied in terms of the degrees of syntactic and intonational structure present. All sequences underwent primary auditory stream segregation to some extent but the amount of apparent spatial separation was less when syntactic and intonational structure was present.

scholarly journals Passive sentence reversal errors in autism: Replicating Ambridge, Bidgood, and Thomas (2020)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel David Jones ◽  
Madeline Dooley ◽  
Ben Ambridge
Keyword(s):  
High Functioning Autism ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Thematic Role ◽  
Role Assignment ◽  
High Functioning ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
Age Appropriate ◽  
Constituent Order ◽  
Passive Sentence ◽  
Reversal Errors

Ambridge, Bidgood, and Thomas (2020) conducted an elicitation-production task in which children with and without (high-functioning) autism described animations following priming with passive sentences. The authors report that children with autism were more likely than IQ-matched children without autism to commit reversal errors, for instance describing a scene in which the character Wendy surprised the character Bob by saying Wendy was surprised by Bob. We set out to test whether this effect replicated in a new sample of children with and without (high-functioning) autism (N = 26), and present a cumulative analysis in which data from the original study and the replication were pooled (N = 56). The main effect reported by Ambridge et al. (2020) replicated: While children with and without autism produced a similar number of passive responses in general, the responses of children with autism were significantly more likely to include reversal errors. Despite age- appropriate knowledge of constituent order in passive syntax, thematic role assignment is impaired among some children with high-functioning autism.

scholarly journals On order and prohibition

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniël Van Olmen
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
First Principle ◽  
Linguistic Evidence ◽  
Constituent Order

Abstract The present article examines the claim in the literature that the negative first principle, i.e. the preference for the order negation-verb to verb-negation, is stronger in negative imperatives (or prohibitives) than in negative declaratives. To test this hypothesis, we develop – in contrast to earlier research – a systematic, three-way classification of languages, which is also operationalized as a ranking capturing the overall level of strength of the principle. This classification is applied to a genealogically and geographically balanced sample of 179 languages. In addition, we consider the role of several factors known to correlate with the position of negation – like its form, constituent order and areality. However, no cross-linguistic evidence is found for any difference in negation’s position between negative imperatives and negative declaratives. We therefore conclude that the hypothesis should be rejected.

The role of constituent order and level of embedding in cross-linguistic structural priming

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
GUNNAR JACOB ◽  
KALLIOPI KATSIKA ◽  
NEILOUFAR FAMILY ◽  
SHANLEY E. M. ALLEN
Keyword(s):  
Priming Effect ◽  
Target Sentence ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Structural Priming ◽  
Tree Representation ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Hierarchical Tree ◽  
Constituent Order

In two cross-linguistic priming experiments with native German speakers of L2 English, we investigated the role of constituent order and level of embedding in cross-linguistic structural priming. In both experiments, significant priming effects emerged only if prime and target were similar with regard to constituent order and also situated on the same level of embedding. We discuss our results on the basis of two current theoretical accounts of cross-linguistic priming, and conclude that neither an account based on combinatorial nodes nor an account assuming that constituent order is directly responsible for the priming effect can fully explain our data pattern. We suggest an account that explains cross-linguistic priming through a hierarchical tree representation. This representation is computed during processing of the prime, and can influence the formulation of a target sentence only when the structural features specified in it are grammatically correct in the target sentence.

Remarks on the Relation between Case-Alignment and Constituent Order

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tarald Taraldsen
Keyword(s):  
Linear Order ◽  
Constituent Order

The topic of this chapter is a descriptive generalization indicating a connection between case-alignment and the linear order of the major constituents of a sentence. In particular, the generalization claims that no SVO language can have Ergative/Absolutive case-alignment (“Mahajan’s Generalization”). The discussion focuses on determining to what extent existing theories of case-alignment provide a basis for explaining the descriptive generalization as well as its exceptions, and some concrete proposals are examined. I also suggest ways of broadening the empirical foundations of the generalization so as to narrow down the range of analytical options. In particular, it should be determined whether neutral languages with Ergative/Absolutive agreement fall under the scope of the generalization, and also whether the generalization extends to tripartite languages.

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