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ROA 786-1205

Asymmetries in language use reveal asymmetries in the grammar

Petra Hendriks <P.Hendriks at rug.nl>
Helen de Hoop <H.deHoop at let.ru.nl>
Monique J.A. Lamers <M.Lamers at let.ru.nl>

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Abstract:
According to the classical view, the nature of the grammar
is independent of its use. A puzzle for this view is the
observation that in language acquisition production sometimes
precedes comprehension. Children who use subject-object
status to determine word order in production not necessarily
use word order to determine subject-object status in comprehensio
n. On the basis of results from first language acquisition
as well as adult sentence processing, we show that the role
of grammar in production can be different from the role
of the same grammar in comprehension.

Comments: In: Paul Dekker & Michael Franke (eds.), Proceedings of the Fifteenth Amsterdam Colloquium, ILLC/Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, 2005, pp. 113-118.
Keywords: word order, subject-object status, production, comprehension, language acquisition, sentence processing
Areas: Semantics,Syntax,Language Acquisition,Psycholinguistics
Type: Conference Proceedings Chapter

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