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Direct linkFrank, Stefan L.; Trompenaars, Thijs; Vasishth, Shravan – Cognitive Science, 2016
An English double-embedded relative clause from which the middle verb is omitted can often be processed more easily than its grammatical counterpart, a phenomenon known as the grammaticality illusion. This effect has been found to be reversed in German, suggesting that the illusion is language specific rather than a consequence of universal…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Grammar
Kaschak, Michael P.; Saffran, Jenny R. – Cognitive Science, 2006
This article explores the influence of idiomatic syntactic constructions (i.e., constructions whose phrase structure rules violate the rules that underlie the construction of other kinds of sentences in the language) on the acquisition of phrase structure. In Experiment 1, participants were trained on an artificial language generated from…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Phrase Structure, Sentences, Experiments
