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dc.contributor.authorBresnan, Joan
dc.contributor.authorFord, Marilyn
dc.contributor.editorGregory N. Carlson, University of Rochester
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:14:32Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:14:32Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.modified2011-04-29T02:57:23Z
dc.identifier.issn00978507
dc.identifier.doi10.1353/lan.0.0189
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/38040
dc.description.abstractThe present study uses probabilistic models of corpus data in a novel way, to measure and compare the syntactic predictive capacities of speakers of different varieties of the same language. The study finds that speakers' knowledge of probabilistic grammatical choices can vary across different varieties of the same language and can be detected psycholinguistically in the individual. In three pairs of experiments, Australians and Americans responded reliably to corpus model probabilities in rating the naturalness of alternative dative constructions, their lexical-decision latencies during reading varied inversely with the syntactic probabilities of the construction, and they showed subtle covariation in these tasks, which is in line with quantitative differences in the choices of datives produced in the same contexts.*
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherLinguistic Society of America
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom168
dc.relation.ispartofpageto213
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalLanguage
dc.relation.ispartofvolume86
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLanguage in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology)
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCognitive Sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLinguistics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode200406
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1702
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2004
dc.titlePredicting syntax: Processing dative constructions in American and Australian varieties of English
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
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gro.date.issued2010
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorFord, Marilyn


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