Prédire la position de l’adjectif épithète en français

Thuilier, Juliette; Fox, Gwendoline; Crabbé, Benoît

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“…Even though both pre-nominal and post-nominal adjectives exist in French, different adjectives “prefer” (Thuilier et al, 2012) one or the other position. For example, phonological length, frequency of the noun and of the adjective, noun-adjective semantic relationship within an NP has been described by some authors as being a good predictor of the position of the adjective (Waugh, 1977; Bouchard, 1998).…”

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“…In order to create forty adjective-NPs, we selected twenty disyllabic nouns and their corresponding pictures from a French database (Alario and Ferrand, 1999 ) with two pre-nominal and two post-nominal adjectives. Even though both pre-nominal and post-nominal adjectives exist in French, different adjectives “prefer” (Thuilier et al, 2012 ) one or the other position. For example, phonological length, frequency of the noun and of the adjective, noun-adjective semantic relationship within an NP has been described by some authors as being a good predictor of the position of the adjective (Waugh, 1977 ; Bouchard, 1998 ).…”

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“…For example, phonological length, frequency of the noun and of the adjective, noun-adjective semantic relationship within an NP has been described by some authors as being a good predictor of the position of the adjective (Waugh, 1977 ; Bouchard, 1998 ). The selected adjectives were either pre-nominal ( vieux and grand ) or post-nominal ( vert and rouge ) and their preferred position was respected, as vieux and grand are mostly used pre-nominally and color adjectives ( vert and rouge ) are always post-nominal (Thuilier et al, 2012 ). Each noun was associated with vieux or grand to create 20 adjective + noun NPs and with vert or rouge to form 20 noun + adjective NPs.…”

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Inter-subject variability modulates phonological advance planning in the production of adjective-noun phrases

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Laganaro

2014

Front. Psychol.

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The literature on advance phonological planning in adjective-noun phrases (NPs) presents diverging results: while many experimental studies suggest that the entire NP is encoded before articulation, other results favor a span of encoding limited to the first word. Although cross-linguistic differences in the structure of adjective-NPs may account for some of these contrasting results, divergences have been reported even among similar languages and syntactic structures. Here we examined whether inter-individual differences account for variability in the span of phonological planning in the production of French NPs, where previous results indicated encoding limited to the first word. The span of phonological encoding is tested with the picture-word interference (PWI) paradigm using phonological distractors related to the noun or to the adjective of the NPs. In Experiment 1, phonological priming effects were limited to the first word in adjective NPs whichever the position of the adjective (pre-nominal or post-nominal). Crucially, phonological priming effects on the second word interacted with speakers' production speed suggesting different encoding strategies for participants. In Experiment 2, we tested this hypothesis further with a larger group of participants. Results clearly showed that slow and fast initializing participants presented different phonological priming patterns on the last element of adjective-NPs: while the first word was primed by a distractor for all speakers, only the slow speaker group presented a priming effect on the second element of the NP. These results show that the span of phonological encoding is modulated by inter-individual strategies: in experimental paradigms some speakers plan word by word whereas others encode beyond the initial word. We suggest that the diverging results reported in the literature on advance phonological planning may partly be reconciled in light of the present results.

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Inter-subject variability modulates phonological advance planning in the production of adjective-noun phrases

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Laganaro

2014

Front. Psychol.

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“…Wilmet, 1981;Bouchard, 1998;Miller, Pullum and Zwicky, 1997). For example, indefinites and cardinals are only found in prenominal position (8-a)- (8-b), while size, color or relational ones occur post-nominally (8-c) (8-d) 9) can alternate between preand post-nominal positions with roughly the same meaning (Abeillé and Godard, 1999;Thuilier, Fox and Crabbé, 2012;Laenzlinger, 2005). As in English, all adjectives must occur after the noun when they have a phrasal dependent: un bon repas 'a good meal'/un repas bon pour moi/*un bon pour moi repas 'a meal good for me', hence the [WEIGHT light] constraint proposed by (Abeillé and Godard, 1999) or the [LEX ] constraint by (Sadler and Arnold, 1994) for prenominal adjectives.…”

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Closest conjunct agreement with attributive adjectives

Abeillé

2021

French Language Studies

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Contrary to most French grammars claiming that French only allows masculine agreement when mixed-gender nouns are conjoined, we show that closest conjunct agreement (CCA) does exist in contemporary French, as in other Romance languages, and is the preferred strategy for prenominal adjectives. Using data from a large corpus (FrWac) and an acceptability rating experiment, we show that (feminine) CCA is well accepted in contemporary French, and should be distinguished from attraction errors, despite the norm prescribing masculine agreement. We also show the role of the adjective position, i.e. prenominal or post-nominal, and humanness. CCA is the preferred strategy for prenominal adjectives, and non-human nouns favour CCA for post-nominal adjectives. Assuming a hierarchical structure for coordination, the closest noun is the highest in A-N order, whereas it is the lowest in N-A order. Thus CCA in prenominal position may be favoured by a shorter structural distance. One can also see CCA with a prenominal adjective as ‘early’ agreement. Regarding humanness, grammatical gender is interpreted as social gender with human nouns, and a masculine plural can refer to a mixed group. This ‘gender neutral’ plural may favour masculine agreement for human nouns, or the prescriptive norm is more influential for human nouns.

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“…D'après une précédente étude sur un corpus journalistique (Thuilier et al 2012), les locuteurs semblent répondre en priorité à la contrainte lexicale de la préférence (statistique) de placement. Ils attribuent une position par défaut aux différentes unités, par exemple l'antéposition pour gros et la postposition pour fort, et n'envisagent l'alternative que rarement : seuls 10% des adjectifs présentent effectivement les deux ordres et plus de 90% de leurs occurrences sont correctement prédites sur l'unique base des préférences de position de chaque unité.…”

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Prédire la position de l’adjectif épithète en français

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Inter-subject variability modulates phonological advance planning in the production of adjective-noun phrases

Inter-subject variability modulates phonological advance planning in the production of adjective-noun phrases

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