Processing auxiliary selection with Italian intransitive verbs

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3988795
AutoresEllen Gurman Bard (University of Edinburgh), Cheryl Frenck-Mestre, Cheryl Frenck‐mestre (0000-0003-3784-2191, University of Edinburgh), Antonella Sorace (0000-0002-8812-1979, University of Edinburgh)
Año2010
Volumen48
Número2
Fecha de publicación2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling.2010.011
OpenAlexW2168182454
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas22

For intransitive verbs in languages with a choice of perfective auxiliaries, off-line acceptability judgments conform to a semantically based Auxiliary Selection Hierarchy (ASH) (Sorace 2000, 2004). According to the ASH, inherently telic verbs regularly selecting auxiliary BE appear to be core exemplars of unaccusative syntax, while atelic verbs of agentive activity regularly selecting HAVE are core exemplars of unergative syntax. Non-core verbs that are inherently neither telic nor agentive allow either auxiliary to degrees depending on context and on distance from telic and agentive poles. ASH effects have not yet been investigated in real-time language processing. This paper demonstrates ASH effects on processing of Italian auxiliaries essere 'be' and avere 'have' in on-line comprehension and production. For native speakers reading Italian sentences, total reading times display the ASH effect: a stronger advantage for correct over incorrect auxiliaries with aspectually prototypical core verbs than with peripheral exemplars. In word production, the ASH effect appears when visually presented auxiliaries prime production of participles corresponding to infinitive stimuli. The pattern of results conforms to linguistic markedness and suggests how the ASH may be reflected in the real-time processing of auxiliaries

Context (archaeology) · Hierarchy · Lexicon · Linguistics · Markedness · Modal verb · Natural language processing · Reading (process) · Selection (genetic algorithm) · Syntax · Verb · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · History · Language Development and Disorders · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation