The Southern Dative Presentative Meets Mechanical Turk

Wood, Jim; Horn, Laurence R.; Zanuttini, Raffaella; Lindemann, Luke

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“…As we show in Wood et al (2015a), our participant pool is quite diverse in terms of age, gender, education, and income, but not in terms of race/ethnicity, mirroring Ipeirotis's (2010) findings for the MTurk user population as a whole.⁶ This means that we can use our MTurk surveys to test the influence of some but not all social variables that may play a role in language variation; in particular, other methods are better suited for studying variation that correlates with race/ethnicity.…”

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“…Wood et al (2015a) and Section 3.4 below detail the geographic coverage of the "dative presentative" construction shown in (2). Wood and Zanuttini (2016) propose a syntactic analysis of this phenomenon, revolving around the features of a functional head Appl (Pylkkänen 2008), but this analysis is still under development and revision (Wood and Zanuttini forthcoming).…”

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The Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: Morphosyntactic variation in North American English

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Abstract:The Yale Grammatical Diversity Project approaches the empirical domain of North American English from the perspective of generative microcomparative syntax. In addition to eliciting judgments from speakers of particular varieties, we also conduct large-scale surveys, map the results of those surveys geographically, conduct statistical tests taking geography and other social variables into account, and look for theoretically significant linguistic correlations. In all cases, we do this with the primary goal of understanding variation between speakers at the individual level. While our goals and methodologies are informed by our theoretical perspective, we expect that our work and results will be of interest to linguists working in other frameworks and even to the public more generally. This article outlines the goals and methodologies of the project and describes in broad strokes some of the results obtained so far, as well as some of the ways we have shared our findings with others, inside and outside academia.

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The Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: Morphosyntactic variation in North American English

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“…Other researchers have used online methods for sociolinguistics, but typically in questionnaire formats such as Vaux & Golder's Harvard US Dialect Survey (2003), and Vaughn & Kendall's (2016) Mechanical Turk perceptual study of (ING). Wood, Horn, Zanuttini & Lindemann (2015) show how questionnaires in Mechanical Turk can be used to explore syntactic microvariation. 5 We believe that the present study is the first time that Mechanical Turk has been used to elicit largescale audio recordings that can be analyzed in terms of sociophonetics and dialectology.…”

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Bring on the Crowd! Using Online Audio Crowd-Sourcing for Large-Scale New England Dialectology and Acoustic Sociophonetics

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Where a licence is displayed above, please note the terms and conditions of the licence govern your use of this document.When citing, please reference the published version. Take down policyWhile the University of Birmingham exercises care and attention in making items available there are rare occasions when an item has been uploaded in error or has been deemed to be commercially or otherwise sensitive.

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“…Instead, the overall goal is to build a large database on syntactic variation that can be used in current and future studies of syntactic dialect variation while simultaneously developing a finer-grained sense of the geographic distribution of this variation. See Wood et al (2015), Zanuttini et al (2017), and Wood (submitted) for discussion of and initial results from the YGDP.…”

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Microvariation in thehave yet toconstruction

Tyler

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2019

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The have yet to construction, exemplified by sentences such as John has yet to visit his grandmother, is widespread across dialects of English. However, recent studies have revealed that behind this apparent unity, there is significant variation in the syntactic properties of the have yet to construction. Speakers vary with respect to (i) the status of have as an auxiliary or main verb, (ii) the status of negation tests, and (iii) the status of a variety of related yet to constructions. The goal of this paper is to sort out the microsyntax of have yet to across speakers, in the face of contradictory empirical claims and mutually incompatible proposals in the existing literature. We develop an analysis based in part on two wide-scale surveys we have conducted. With respect to have, we show that speakers who can treat it as a main verb can also treat it as an auxiliary, but not necessarily vice-versa. We propose that the variation in this case has to do with where the perfect features are introduced in the clause. With respect to negation, we find that speakers do not treat all the negation tests the same, forcing us to contend with the question of how these tests work. We propose that for most speakers, only the embedded clause is syntactically negative. Negation tests split according to whether they must target the matrix clause, or whether they can target an embedded clause as well. In some cases, the tests reveal the same sentence to be both affirmative and negative, as we expect: the matrix clause is syntactically affirmative, but the embedded clause, which hosts the lexical content, is syntactically negative.

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The Southern Dative Presentative Meets Mechanical Turk

Cited by 15 publications

References 29 publications

The Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: Morphosyntactic variation in North American English

The Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: Morphosyntactic variation in North American English

Bring on the Crowd! Using Online Audio Crowd-Sourcing for Large-Scale New England Dialectology and Acoustic Sociophonetics

Microvariation in thehave yet toconstruction

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