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Using the Permutational Model to Predict Grammatical Patterns

Author(s) -

John A. Mills,

Robert Ian Scott

Publication year - 1975

Publication title -

language and speech

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.713

H-Index - 52

eISSN - 1756-6053

pISSN - 0023-8309

DOI - 10.1177/002383097501800403

Subject(s) - grammaticality , linguistics , psychology , meaning (existential) , sentence , verb , subject (documents) , nonsense , object (grammar) , grammar , grammatical category , noun , computer science , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , library science , psychotherapist , gene

The study concerns grammaticality as defined by degree of disruption of Scott's (1969) subject--verb-object-qualifier (SVOQ) sentence. Experiment I demonstrated that use of ambiguous qualifiers such that the meaning of sentences of SQVO or SVQO form could be re-interpreted caused relatively high grammatical judgments, whereas use of non-ambiguous qualifiers depressed judgments. Experiment II (using English words) and Experiment III (using inflected nonsense roots) showed that Scott's index of disruption of SVQO kernels predicts the production of grammatical and non-grammatical patterns by native speakers of English. The results are discussed in terms of Fries' distinction between structural and lexical meaning.

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