Priming paradigmatic gaps
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Joakim Andreassen Vea
Abstract
We present an experimental study on paradigmatic gaps in the neuter gender of Norwegian adjectives. The formation of neuter gender forms is typically not complicated, and yet people hesitate to use a predictable set of adjectives. We investigate the effect of priming in order to determine if the missing neuter forms will facilitate lexical decisions for their common gender form, possibly through lemma activation. A clear difference was found between regular and problematic adjectives. This shows that the intuition of speakers is reflected in detectable differences in processing.
Abstract
We present an experimental study on paradigmatic gaps in the neuter gender of Norwegian adjectives. The formation of neuter gender forms is typically not complicated, and yet people hesitate to use a predictable set of adjectives. We investigate the effect of priming in order to determine if the missing neuter forms will facilitate lexical decisions for their common gender form, possibly through lemma activation. A clear difference was found between regular and problematic adjectives. This shows that the intuition of speakers is reflected in detectable differences in processing.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
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Relative clauses
- Case(mis)matching in German free relative clauses in the self-paced reading paradigm 11
- Integrating the filler 35
- When initial thematic role attribution lingers 57
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Empty categories
- Brain responses elicited by implausible fillers and filled object gaps in German 75
- Gone with a trace? 91
- Priming paradigmatic gaps 117
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Determiner Phrases
- A good-enough representation is not good enough 137
- Processing of pronoun gender by Dutch-Russian simultaneous bilinguals 153
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Language impairment
- A syntactically based treatment of relative clauses 177
- Language impairment in an Italian child with Trisomy X 209
- Sentence reading in older adults with and without Mild Cognitive Impairment 239
- The comprehension of wh -questions and passives in German children and adolescents with Down syndrome 279
- Index 303
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
-
Relative clauses
- Case(mis)matching in German free relative clauses in the self-paced reading paradigm 11
- Integrating the filler 35
- When initial thematic role attribution lingers 57
-
Empty categories
- Brain responses elicited by implausible fillers and filled object gaps in German 75
- Gone with a trace? 91
- Priming paradigmatic gaps 117
-
Determiner Phrases
- A good-enough representation is not good enough 137
- Processing of pronoun gender by Dutch-Russian simultaneous bilinguals 153
-
Language impairment
- A syntactically based treatment of relative clauses 177
- Language impairment in an Italian child with Trisomy X 209
- Sentence reading in older adults with and without Mild Cognitive Impairment 239
- The comprehension of wh -questions and passives in German children and adolescents with Down syndrome 279
- Index 303
