How do people produce ungrammatical utterances?

Ivanova, Iva; Pickering, Martin J.; McLean, Janet F.; Costa, Albert; Branigan, Holly P.

doi:10.1016/j.jml.2012.06.003

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“…In fact, people may produce constructions that they simultaneously judge ungrammatical themselves (Asudeh, 2011). According to Ivanova, Pickering, McLean, Costa, and Branigan (2012) constructions that occur in everyday language, although claimed to be ungrammatical, can still be elicited by syntactic priming. Therefore, we do believe that grammatical norm violations are not truly ungrammatical, but they are not completely like regular grammatical sentences either, at least not for language purists who do not use these constructions themselves.…”

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How the brain processes violations of the grammatical norm: An fMRI study

Hubers

Snijders²,

Hoop³

2016

Brain and Language

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a b s t r a c tNative speakers of Dutch do not always adhere to prescriptive grammar rules in their daily speech. These grammatical norm violations can elicit emotional reactions in language purists, mostly high-educated people, who claim that for them these constructions are truly ungrammatical. However, linguists generally assume that grammatical norm violations are in fact truly grammatical, especially when they occur frequently in a language. In an fMRI study we investigated the processing of grammatical norm violations in the brains of language purists, and compared them with truly grammatical and truly ungrammatical sentences. Grammatical norm violations were found to be unique in that their processing resembled not only the processing of truly grammatical sentences (in left medial Superior Frontal Gyrus and Angular Gyrus), but also that of truly ungrammatical sentences (in Inferior Frontal Gyrus), despite what theories of grammar would usually lead us to believe.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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How the brain processes violations of the grammatical norm: An fMRI study

Hubers

Snijders²,

Hoop³

2016

Brain and Language

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“…When the fixation point disappeared, participants saw a sentence on the computer screen and heard a recording of the sentence produced by a female German native speaker. To more closely parallel the confederate scripting paradigm used by Ruf (2011), in which participants heard the prime sentence but did not repeat it out loud, participants were not instructed to repeat the prime sentence (see, e.g., Bock et al, 2007; Flett et al, 2013; Ivanova, Pickering, McLean, Costa, & Branigan, 2012, for similar procedures). Then they saw a picture and decided whether the picture matched the meaning of the sentence they had just heard by pressing a key labeled ja “yes” or nein “no.” After participants made their decision, the target picture appeared and remained on the screen until participants finished producing their sentence.…”

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The priming of word order in second language German

Jackson

Ruf

2016

Applied Psycholinguistics

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The present study investigates the priming and subsequent production of word order variation (adverb–verb–subject vs. subject–verb–adverb order) with temporal phrases (Experiment 1) and locative phrases (Experiment 2) among intermediate English–German second language learners. Participants exhibited comparable short-term priming for adverb-first word order in both experiments. In the initial baseline phase, participants produced adverb-first sentences with temporal phrases but not locative phrases, and only temporal phrases led to significant long-term priming, as measured in a postpriming phase. This suggests that at lower proficiency levels, long-term, but not short-term, priming may depend on the stability of specific semantically constrained constructions rather than more generalized syntactic representations and that such cumulative effects may be shaped by preferences for a particular construction in the native language.

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“…Subscripts indicate coindexation between levels. structural priming between sentences containing a mismatch between syntactic structure and the verb's subcategorization requirements (e.g., The waitress exists the book to the monk primes PO responses [Ivanova et al 2012a; see also Ivanova et al 2012b]) If syntactic representations were bound to lexical content, priming should have occurred only when the syntactic properties of the words were compatible with the sentence structure.…”

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“…In practice, some researchers have argued that priming may offer an intervention to enhance foreign-language learning (McDonough & Mackey 2006) or recovery from aphasia (Cho-Reyes & Thompson 2012). Moreover, Ivanova et al (2012b) found that participants occasionally produced a DO structure with a verb such as donate after encountering another DO sentence with donate, even though such sentences are usually regarded as unacceptable (Ambridge). In other words, priming can change the speaker's representation (at least temporarily).…”

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Priming is swell, but it's far from simple

Ziegler

Snedeker

Wittenberg³

2017

Behav Brain Sci

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Clearly, structural priming is a valuable tool for probing linguistic representation. But we don't think that the existing results provide strong support for Branigan & Pickering's (B&P's) model, largely because the priming effects are more confusing and diverse than their theory would suggest. Fortunately, there are a number of other experimental tools available, and linguists are increasingly making use of them.

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How do people produce ungrammatical utterances?

Cited by 28 publications

References 38 publications

How the brain processes violations of the grammatical norm: An fMRI study

How the brain processes violations of the grammatical norm: An fMRI study

The priming of word order in second language German

Priming is swell, but it's far from simple

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