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An Artificial Opposition between Grammaticality and Frequency: Comment on [Bornkessel et al., 2002]
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Kempen, Gerard; Harbusch, Karin – Cognition, 2003
In a recent "Cognition" paper ("Cognition" 85 (2002) B21), Bornkessel, Schlesewsky, and Friederici report ERP data that they claim "show that online processing difficulties induced by word order variations in German cannot be attributed to the relative infrequency of the constructions in question, but rather appear to reflect the application of…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Processing, Word Order, German
"And yet It Moves" or Why Grammar Overrides Frequency: A Reply to Kempen and Harbusch
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Bornkessel, Ina; Schlesewsky, Matthias; Friederici, Angela D. – Cognition, 2003
We show that Kempen and Harbusch's ("Cognition" (2003) "this issue") arguments against our claims cannot be upheld. On the one hand, their alternative account of our data that is based on the availability of constructions with object-experiencer verbs is not compatible with the literature on the processing of these types of sentences in German.…
Descriptors: Sentences, Grammar, Criticism, Verbs