Assigning linguistic roles: the influence of conflicting cues  

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McDonald, Janet L.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Memory and Language (Full Text) vol. 26 no. 1 (Feb. 1987), page 100-117.
Fulltext: 26_01_McDonald.pdf (1.58MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JML/26 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This paper investigates how multiple, conflicting sources of information are integrated in linguistic role assignment. Three experiments examine how adult speakers of English and Dutch use the cues of word order, noun animacy, and case inflection to assign the actor role in active Noun- Verb-Noun sentences and relative clauses, and the cues of word order, noun animacy, and prepositions to assign the recipient role in dative constructions. Strength of cue usage differs across roles and languages. When assigning the actor role, English speakers rely most strongly on word order and Dutch speakers on case inflection; when assigning the recipient role, speakers of both languages rely most strongly on prepositions. The strength with which a cue is used is shown to be related to its conflict validity, that is, how often the cue indicates the correct interpretation on sentences in which cues disagree about the interpretation. A method of quantifying cue validities is given, and these validities can be used in a mathematical model of cue combination to predict performance.

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