How to investigate interpretation in Slavic experimentally?
How to investigate interpretation in Slavic experimentally?
This chapter raises the issue of high and unpredicted variability in the performance of native Russian (Slavic) speakers. Two case studies are discussed where much more categorical contrasts were expected, but experimental findings attested highly variable interpretations. One case study, Slabakova (2004), investigated the interpretation of bare plural and mass objects in perfective sentences. The second case study, Cho and Slabakova (2014), looked at the acceptability of fronted objects when they are Topics or Foci. In both studies, native speaker participants revealed complex patterns of acceptability sensitive to ambiguity permitted by the grammar. A view of the grammar is discussed, Ramchand and Svenonius (2008) which provides an explanation of the variable findings. Implications of this situation with respect to psycholinguistic experiments are considered
Slabakova, Roumyana
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2016
Slabakova, Roumyana
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Slabakova, Roumyana
(2016)
How to investigate interpretation in Slavic experimentally?
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Anstatt, Tanja, Gattnar, Anja and Clasmeier, Christina
(eds.)
Slavic Languages in Psycholinguistics: Chances and Challenges for Empirical and Experimental Research.
Gunter Narr Verlag.
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This chapter raises the issue of high and unpredicted variability in the performance of native Russian (Slavic) speakers. Two case studies are discussed where much more categorical contrasts were expected, but experimental findings attested highly variable interpretations. One case study, Slabakova (2004), investigated the interpretation of bare plural and mass objects in perfective sentences. The second case study, Cho and Slabakova (2014), looked at the acceptability of fronted objects when they are Topics or Foci. In both studies, native speaker participants revealed complex patterns of acceptability sensitive to ambiguity permitted by the grammar. A view of the grammar is discussed, Ramchand and Svenonius (2008) which provides an explanation of the variable findings. Implications of this situation with respect to psycholinguistic experiments are considered
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Christina Clasmeier
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