Experimental Syntax: exploring the effect of repeated exposure to anomalous syntactic structure --evidence from rating and reading tasks

This thesis explores the nature of linguistic introspection through the phenomenon known in the literature as the Syntactic Satiation Effect, where the perceived unacceptability of some syntactic structures is attenuated on repeated exposure. Recent findings suggest that rating change in experimenta...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Francom, Jerid Cole
Other Authors: Nicol, Janet L.
Language:EN
Published: The University of Arizona. 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195817