Processing of Transitivity Alternations and Frequency-Based Accounts in Greek Adult Language
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5900474 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Georgia Fotiadou (0000-0003-2435-5191, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 216 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/languages7030216 |
| OpenAlex | W4291163409 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
The processing and resolution of syntactically ambiguous structures is accounted for by serial autonomous and multiple constraint satisfaction models differently. We investigated the extent to which frequency affects native speakers' processing and interpretation of 'voice (non)-alternating' anticausative Greek verbs which differ in the availability or lack of voice alternation on the verb when it appears in intransitive structures. The accessibility of interpretations was measured with an online self-paced reading (SPR) task and an offline acceptability judgment (AJ) task addressed to 45 monolingual Greek-speaking adults. In order to investigate whether processing load is affected by statistical records in the parser, we compared empirical data with the frequency of the available readings that these verbs receive in formal and informal registers (ILSP, Web-Based Corpus). The online processing study indicated that the parser is sensitive to morphological cues ((N)ACT voice marking), while semantic factors such as animacy are integrated in subsequent stages of processing. A frequency effect was found in accordance with 'coarse-grained' models of sentence processing, while more 'fine-grained' models could not be validated with respect to frequency alone. The majority of acceptability judgements attributed to the verbs investigated correlated with the most frequent interpretations of verb forms in intransitive structures in corpora
Animacy · Cognitive psychology · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Parsing · Sentence · Sentence processing · Speech recognition · Task (project management · Transitive relation · Verb · Computer Science · Language Development and Disorders · Mathematics · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Artificial Intelligence
The Unaccusativity Puzzle
Sentence Processing: A Crosslinguistic Perspective
External Arguments in Transitivity Alternations
Argument Realization
Word Meaning and Montague Grammar
The independence of syntactic processing
Semantic Influences On Parsing
The Contributions of Verb Bias and Plausibility to the Comprehension of Temporarily Ambiguous Sentences
Regular morphology and the lexicon
Unified Analysis of Passives and Anticausatives
Middle-passive voice in Albanian and Greek
The relationship between the frequency and the processing complexity of linguistic structure
A minimalist theory of A-movement and control
The acquisition of transitivity alternations in Greek
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |