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Processing unambiguous verbal passives in German

Processing unambiguous verbal passives in German

 Grillo, Nino
 2019.
 p. 523-562 enk ISSN: 08683409
Nghiên cứu ngôn ngữTiếng ĐứcCấu trúc câuComplexityEvent structureGerman passivesSentence processingTừ thụ động+ 1 từ khóa
Tác giả CN Grillo, Nino
Nhan đề Processing unambiguous verbal passives in German / Nino Grillo.
Thông tin xuất bản 2019.
Mô tả vật lý p. 523-562
Tóm tắt Passivization played a central role in shaping both linguistic theory and psycholinguistic approaches to sentence processing, language acquisition and impairment. We present the results of two experiments that simultaneously test online processing (self-paced reading) and offline comprehension (through comprehension questions) of passives in German while also manipulating the event structure of the predicates used. In contrast to English, German passives are unambiguously verbal, allowing for the study of passivization independent of a confound in the degree of interpretive ambiguity (verbal/adjectival). In English, this ambiguity interacts with event structure, with passives of stative predicates naturally receiving an adjectival interpretation. In a recent study, Paolazzi et al. (2015, 2016) showed that in contrast to the mainstream theoretical perspective, passive sentences are not inherently harder to process than actives. Complexity of passivization in English is tied to the aspectual class of the verbal predicate passivized: with eventive predicates, passives are read faster (as hinted at in previous literature) and generate no comprehension difficulties (in contrast to previous findings with mixed predicates). Complexity effects with passivization, in turn, are only found with stative predicates. The asymmetry is claimed to stem from the temporary adjectival/verbal ambiguity of stative passives in English. We predict that the observed difficulty with English stative passives disappears in German, given that in this language the passive construction under investigation is unambiguously verbal. The results support this prediction: both offline and online there was no difficulty with passivization, under either eventive or stative predicates. In fact, passives and their rich morphology eased parsing across both types of predicates.
Thuật ngữ chủ đề Nghiên cứu ngôn ngữ-Tiếng Đức-TVĐHHN.
Từ khóa tự do Tiếng Đức
Từ khóa tự do Cấu trúc câu
Từ khóa tự do Complexity
Từ khóa tự do Event structure
Từ khóa tự do German passives
Từ khóa tự do Sentence processing
Từ khóa tự do Từ thụ động
Từ khóa tự do Thời bị động
Nguồn trích Journal of Linguistics- Vol. 55, Issue 3/2019
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