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The Roles of Verb Semantics, Entrenchment, and Morphophonology in the Retreat from Dative Argument-Structure Overgeneralization Errors
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Ambridge, Ben; Pine, Julian M.; Rowland, Caroline F.; Chang, Franklin – Language, 2012
Children (aged five-to-six and nine-to-ten years) and adults rated the acceptability of well-formed sentences and argument-structure overgeneralization errors involving the prepositional-object and double-object dative constructions (e.g. "Marge pulled the box to Homer/*Marge pulled Homer the box"). In support of the entrenchment hypothesis, a…
Descriptors: Evidence, Sentence Structure, Semantics, Verbs
Peaks beyond Phonology: Adolescence, Incrementation, and Language Change
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Tagliamonte, Sali A.; D'Arcy, Alexandra – Language, 2009
What is the mechanism by which a linguistic change advances across successive generations of speakers? We explore this question by using the model of incrementation provided in Labov 2001 and analyzing six current changes in English. Extending Labov's focus on recent and vigorous phonological changes, we target ongoing morphosyntactic(-semantic)…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Phonology, Semantics, Grammar
Truth Is a Linguistic Question
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Bolinger, Dwight – Language, 1973
Presidential address delivered to the Linguistic Society of America at its Annual Meeting, December 28, 1972, Atlanta, Georgia. (DD)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Correlation, Evaluative Thinking, Mutual Intelligibility