Agreement attraction in Serbian: decomposing markedness

Published online 18 July 2016

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Autores: Ristic, Bojana, Molinaro, Nicola, Mancini, Simona
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
OAI Identifier:oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/22696
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10810/22696
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number attraction
Serbian
subject-verb agreement
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spelling Agreement attraction in Serbian: decomposing markednessRistic, BojanaMolinaro, NicolaMancini, Simonamarkednessnumber attractionSerbiansubject-verb agreementPublished online 18 July 2016Asymmetric 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 Lexicon201720172016info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/22696reponame:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigacióninstname:Universidad del País VascoInglésinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/PSI2012-32350/info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/PSI2015-65694-P/info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/SEV-2015-0490/https://benjamins.com/#homeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess© 2016. John Benjamins Publishing Companyoai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/226962026-06-18T09:23:17Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Agreement attraction in Serbian: decomposing markedness
title Agreement attraction in Serbian: decomposing markedness
spellingShingle Agreement attraction in Serbian: decomposing markedness
Ristic, Bojana
markedness
number attraction
Serbian
subject-verb agreement
title_short 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_sort Agreement attraction in Serbian: decomposing markedness
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Ristic, Bojana
Molinaro, Nicola
Mancini, Simona
author Ristic, Bojana
author_facet Ristic, Bojana
Molinaro, Nicola
Mancini, Simona
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Mancini, Simona
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author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv markedness
number attraction
Serbian
subject-verb agreement
topic markedness
number attraction
Serbian
subject-verb agreement
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