Romanian (subject-like) DPs attract more than bare nouns: Evidence from speeded continuations
Romanian (subject-like) DPs attract more than bare nouns: Evidence from speeded continuations
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jml.2023.104445
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发表时间：
2023-11-14
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4.3
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Dillon，Brian
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作者：
Bleotu，Adina Camelia;Dillon，Brian
本文探讨是否协议的吸引力调制的分布特性确定主题的可能性，通过检查裸名词和完整的限定词短语（DP）的程度，导致协议的吸引力在罗马尼亚语的影响。罗马尼亚语是这方面的理想试验场，因为有两个分布限制使裸名词不那么像主语：处所限定词省略，防止处所介词使用带定冠词的名词（除非被形容词修饰），以及裸名词限制，不允许裸名词作为动词前主语。我们预测，裸露的名词应该不太可能触发协议的吸引力比公开的DP。我们进行了四个快速被迫选择句子延续任务的罗马尼亚母语测试这一预测。我们观察到，显性的DP比裸露的名词引起更多的吸引力。我们认为，结果是一致的基于线索的检索机制，形成协议的依赖关系，线索，确定主体性被用来重新激活工作记忆中的元素后，处理动词。这些线索可能是语言特有的，在罗马尼亚语中，这意味着一致吸引力对限定词的形态音位明显性很敏感。
This paper investigates whether agreement attraction is modulated by distributional properties determining subject-likelihood by examining the degree to which bare nouns and full determiner phrases (DPs) cause agreement attraction effects in Romanian. Romanian represents an ideal testing ground for this, given two distributional constraints making bare nouns less subject-like:Locative Determiner Omission, preventing locative prepositions from taking nouns with definite articles (unless modified by adjectives), and theNaked Noun Constraint, disallowing bare nouns as preverbal subjects. We predicted that bare nouns should be less likely to trigger agreement attraction than overt DPs. We conducted four speeded forced-choice sentence continuation tasks on Romanian native speakers to test this prediction. We observe that overt DPs cause significantly more attraction than bare nouns. We suggest that the results are consistent with a cue-based retrieval mechanism for forming agreement dependencies, where cues that determine subjecthood are used to reactivate elements in working memory upon processing a verb. These cues can be language specific, and in Romanian, this means that agreement attraction is sensitive to the morphophonological overtness of the determiner.