When linearity prevails over hierarchy in syntax
| Autor: | Nataša Milićević, Branimir Stanković, Ivana Mitić, Michael Becker, Marijana Kresić, Tanja Milićev, Nedžad Leko, Boban Arsenijević, Jelena Tušek, Nermina Čordalija, Anita Peti-Stantić, Franc Marušič, Tina Šuligoj, Andrew Nevins, Jana Willer Gold, Mia Batinić |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Adult
Male HUMANISTIC SCIENCES. Philology. General Linguistics Theoretical computer science Relation (database) Adolescent South Slavic languages media_common.quotation_subject HUMANISTIČKE ZNANOSTI. Filologija. Opće jezikoslovlje (lingvistika) Structure (category theory) Social Sciences experimental syntax syntactic agreement elicited language production coordinated noun phrases 050105 experimental psychology Young Adult HUMANISTIC SCIENCES. Philology. Slavic Studies Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Mathematics media_common Language 060201 languages & linguistics Multidisciplinary Psycholinguistics HUMANISTIČKE ZNANOSTI. Filologija. Slavistika Hierarchy (mathematics) 05 social sciences Linguistics 06 humanities and the arts Syntax Noun phrase Agreement 0602 languages and literature Psychological and Cognitive Sciences Production (computer science) Female |
| Zdroj: | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Volume 115 Issue 3 |
| ISSN: | 1091-6490 0027-8424 |
| Popis: | Significance Syntactic distance is standardly measured hierarchically only by counting the nodes in a tree-like structure. The dominance of hierarchy over the other logically possible measure of distance—e.g., counting words in a linear order—stems from a large body of research. We show a strong preference for the linear strategy in coordination structures in South Slavic languages, with a design comparing agreement controllers that can come either before or after their target. A large-scale study over six geographically and linguistically distinct varieties discovered remarkable uniformity in this preference. Variation discovered was mostly intraindividual, strongly suggesting that a language can entertain synchronous “multiple grammars,” the most striking of which is the one requiring direct reference to linear order. Hierarchical structure has been cherished as a grammatical universal. We use experimental methods to show where linear order is also a relevant syntactic relation. An identical methodology and design were used across six research sites on South Slavic languages. Experimental results show that in certain configurations, grammatical production can in fact favor linear order over hierarchical structure. However, these findings are limited to coordinate structures and distinct from the kind of production errors found with comparable configurations such as “attraction” errors. The results demonstrate that agreement morphology may be computed in a series of steps, one of which is partly independent from syntactic hierarchy. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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