Agreement attraction in Serbian: decomposing markedness
Published online 18 July 2016
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| Publication date: | 2016 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad del País Vasco |
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| Keyword: | markedness number attraction Serbian subject-verb agreement |
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| author | Ristic, Bojana |
| author2 | Molinaro, Nicola Mancini, Simona |
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| author_browse | Mancini, Simona Molinaro, Nicola Ristic, Bojana |
| author_facet | Ristic, Bojana Molinaro, Nicola Mancini, Simona |
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| publisher | The Mental Lexicon |
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| spelling | Agreement attraction in Serbian: decomposing markedness Ristic, Bojana Molinaro, Nicola Mancini, Simona markedness number attraction Serbian subject-verb agreement Published online 18 July 2016 Asymmetric number attraction effects have been typically explained via a privative markedness account: plural nouns are more marked than singular ones and thus stronger attractors. However, this account does not explain results from tripartite systems, in which a third number value is available, like paucal. Here we tested whether attraction effects can be driven by specific markedness sub-components, such as frequency/naturalness of use, using Serbian, in which participles can agree with masculine subjects in singular, plural and paucal. We first conducted a naturalness judgment task, finding the following naturalness/frequency pattern: singular,plural<paucal. In a subsequent forced-choice task, we presented participants with preambles containing a singular, a plural or a paucal headnoun (the castle[Sg] /two castles[Pauc] /the castles[Pl]) modified by singular/plural/paucal attractors (with the window[Sg] /with two windows[Pauc] /with the windows[Pl]). Three options were provided to complete the sentence (resembles[Sg] /resemble[Pauc] /resemble[Pl] gothic architecture).Both accuracy and reaction times (RTs) were collected. Accuracy data reflected the naturalness/frequency pattern, with paucal being the strongest attractor, and plural and singular attracting equally. However, reaction times showed a difference between singular and plural, suggesting co-influence of both frequency/naturalness and morphological markedness. We emphasize the necessity of re-defining markedness and testing attraction through different markedness sub-components (i.e. frequency/naturalness) to explain attraction cross-linguistically. This research was partially funded by the P1_2014_1_38 (B.R and S.M) and PRE_2015_1_0320 (B.R.) grants from the Basque Government, the PSI2012-32350 and PSI2015-65694-P grants from the Spanish Government (N.M.), the Gipuzkoa Fellowship Program (S.M.) and by the grant Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa SEV-2015-0490. The Mental Lexicon http://hdl.handle.net/10810/22696 |
| spellingShingle | Agreement attraction in Serbian: decomposing markedness Ristic, Bojana markedness number attraction Serbian subject-verb agreement |
| title | Agreement attraction in Serbian: decomposing markedness |
| title_full | Agreement attraction in Serbian: decomposing markedness |
| title_fullStr | Agreement attraction in Serbian: decomposing markedness |
| title_full_unstemmed | Agreement attraction in Serbian: decomposing markedness |
| title_short | Agreement attraction in Serbian: decomposing markedness |
| title_sort | Agreement attraction in Serbian: decomposing markedness |
| topic | markedness number attraction Serbian subject-verb agreement |
| topic_facet | markedness number attraction Serbian subject-verb agreement |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/22696 |