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Frazier, Lyn – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2015
Native speakers of English regularly hear sentences without overt subjects. Nevertheless, they maintain a [[superscript -]pro] grammar that requires sentences to have an overt subject. It is proposed that listeners of English recognize that speakers reduce predictable material and thus attribute null subjects to this process, rather than changing…
Descriptors: English, Psycholinguistics, Sentence Structure, Grammar
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Clifton, Charles, Jr.; Frazier, Lyn – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
Plural phrases are open to many interpretations in English, where cumulative interpretations of noun and verb phrases are possible without any disambiguating morphology. A sentence like "Every week, the high school kids went to the movies or the ballgame" might involve quantifying over multiple occurrences of a single scenario, in which…
Descriptors: Grammar, Sentences, Verbs, Nouns
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Staub, Adrian; Clifton, Charles, Jr.; Frazier, Lyn – Journal of Memory and Language, 2006
Two eye movement experiments explored the roles of verbal subcategorization possibilities and transitivity biases in the processing of heavy NP shift sentences in which the verb's direct object appears to the right of a post-verbal phrase. In Experiment 1, participants read sentences in which a prepositional phrase immediately followed the verb,…
Descriptors: Verbs, Sentences, Eye Movements, Language Processing
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Arregui, Ana; Clifton, Charles, Jr.; Frazier, Lyn; Moulton, Keir – Journal of Memory and Language, 2006
Traditional syntactic accounts of verb phrase ellipsis (e.g., ''Jason laughed. Sam did [ ] too.'') categorize as ungrammatical many sentences that language users find acceptable (they ''undergenerate''); semantic accounts overgenerate. We propose that a processing theory, together with a syntactic account, does a better job of describing and…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Verbs, Phrase Structure, Semantics
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Frazier, Lyn – Cognition, 1995
Discusses a 1993 study by Frazier, d'Arcais, and Coolen intended to test Schreuder's (1990) Morphological Integration model concerning the processing of separable and inseparable verbs, and attempts to refute Kempen's objections to their interpretation of the experimental results in this issue. (DR)
Descriptors: Dutch, Grammar, Idioms, Research Design