Reference assignment: Using language breakdown to choose between theoretical approaches
Autor: | Esther Ruigendijk, Sergey Avrutin, Nada Vasić |
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Rok vydání: | 2006 |
Předmět: |
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Male Linguistics and Language Matched-Pair Analysis Cognitive Neuroscience media_common.quotation_subject Population Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Statistics Nonparametric Language and Linguistics Speech and Hearing Theoretical linguistics Humans education Aged Netherlands media_common Aged 80 and over Aphasia Broca Transitive relation Pronoun education.field_of_study Psycholinguistics Grammar Linguistics Middle Aged Syntax Government (linguistics) Exceptional case-marking Female Comprehension Psychology |
Zdroj: | Brain and Language. 96:302-317 |
ISSN: | 0093-934X |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.bandl.2005.06.005 |
Popis: | We report results of an experimental study with Dutch agrammatic aphasics that investigated their ability to interpret pronominal elements in transitive clauses and Exceptional Case Marking constructions (ECM). Using the obtained experimental results as a tool, we distinguish between three competing linguistic theories that aim at determining principles responsible for pronoun distribution: Government and Binding ( Chomsky, 1981 ), Reflexivity ( Reinhart & Reuland, 1993 ), and Primitives of Binding ( Reuland, 2001 ). The obtained results are inconsistent with Government and Binding, but consistent with the latter two theories. We further show that the Primitives of Binding framework most naturally explains our results. Our proposal is based on the different performance demonstrated by patients in transitive clauses and ECM constructions, in combination with the often-made claim in the literature regarding the limitation of processing resources in this population (e.g., Haarmann and Kolk, 1991 , Haarmann and Kolk, 1994 , Zurif et al., 1993 , among others). |
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