Grammar as Processor: A Distributed Morphology account of spontaneous speech errors (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today)

By Roland Pfau
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pages: 385, Date: 2009-01-14
ISBN-10 : 9027255202, rar PDF 4.6 mb

Table of contents
Acknowledgments xi
List of abbreviations xiii
chapter 1
Introduction 1
1.1 Motivations for investigating speech errors 2
1.2 The speech error corpus 7
1.3 A first look at the speech error data 10
1.3.1 Semantic anticipation and perseveration 10
1.3.2 Feature mismatch 11
1.3.3 Feature stranding and feature shift 16
1.3.4 Accommodation 18
1.4 Outline of the book 20
chapter 2
Grammar in use 25
2.1 On mentalism and psychological reality 25
2.2 The processing of grammatical structure 30
2.2.1 Phonological structure 30
2.2.1.1 Segments and segment clusters 31
2.2.1.2 The manipulation of subsegmental features 34
2.2.1.3 Suprasegmentals 36
2.2.2 Morphological complexity 38
2.2.2.1 Stranding 39
2.2.2.2 Non-concatenative morphology 41
2.2.3 Syntactic transformations 45
2.2.3.1 The Derivational Theory of Complexity 47
2.2.3.2 The psychological reality of empty elements 48
2.2.3.3 Transformational errors 50
2.3 Conclusion 52
chapter 3
Theoretical background 55
3.1 Multi-level models of language production 55
3.1.1 Processing levels 56
3.1.2 Lexical retrieval 58
3.1.3 Flow of information 60
3.1.4 Summary 62
3.2 Distributed Morphology: A sketch of the framework 62
3.2.1 The structure of the grammar 64
3.2.2 Morphological Structure 68
3.2.2.1 Morpheme types and local licensing 68
3.2.2.2 Morphological operations
: Merger, insertion, and fusion 72
3.2.3 Phonological Form 76
3.2.3.1 Vocabulary insertion 76
3.2.3.2 Phonological readjustment 79
3.2.4 Summary 81
3.3 Conclusion 81
chapter 4
Semantic features in language production 83
4.1 Non-random insertion: Distinguishing cats from dogs 83
4.2 Semantic features in speech errors 86
4.2.1 Semantic substitutions 86
4.2.2 Semantic anticipations and perseverations 91
4.2.3 Summary 93
4.3 A note on compositional semantics 93
4.3.1 The count/mass distinction 94
4.3.2 Semantic (natural) gender 97
4.3.3 Semantic negation 101
4.3.4 Summary 101
4.4 Conclusion 102
chapter 5
Morphosyntactic features in language production 105
5.1 The processing of grammatical gender 106
5.1.1 Definition and assignment of gender 107
5.1.2 Underspecification of grammatical gender 109
5.1.2.1 Gender accommodation 111
5.1.2.2 The identical gender effect 113
5.1.2.3 Against gender impoverishment 120
5.1.3 The limits of gender accommodation 121
5.1.4 Summary 127
5.2 Defective feature copy I: Local agreement 127
5.2.1 Experimental studies on proximity concord 131
5.2.2 Local subject-verb agreement in speech errors 136
5.2.2.1 Agreement with noun within subject DP 137
5.2.2.2 Agreement with noun within object/adjunct XP 142
5.2.2.3 Agreement with local nominative DP 148
5.2.2.4 SVA-errors in blends 149
5.2.2.5 The prominence of [+plural] 151
5.2.2.6 Morphosyntactic factors: Case and gender 155
5.2.2.7 Morphophonological factor: Zero-marking 161
5.2.2.8 Semantic factors: Animacy and collectivity 162
5.2.2.9 Summary 165
5.2.3 Transformations and feature copy 166
5.2.3.1 Local SVA in embedded clauses 168
5.2.3.2 Local SVA in matrix clauses 170
5.2.3.3 Summary 172
5.2.3.4 A note on local SVA in polar questions 174
5.2.4 Local SVA and the Minimalist Program 176
5.2.5 Local agreement involving pronouns 181
5.2.6 Summary 185
5.3 Defective feature copy II: Long-distance agreement 187
5.3.1 LDA in natural languages 188
5.3.2 LDA in speech errors 190
5.3.2.1 Matrix verb agrees with embedded argument 190
5.3.2.2 Embedded verb agrees with matrix argument 194
5.3.2.3 A special case: Anticipatory agreement 196
5.3.3 Summary: Agreement domains 198
5.4 Feature shift and feature stranding 202
5.4.1 Number 202
5.4.2 Tense 206
5.4.3 Negation 210
5.4.4 Gender 213
5.4.5 Case 217
5.4.6 Summary 219
5.5 Conclusion 221
chapter 6
Rethinking accommodation 223
6.1 A typology of accommodations 224
6.1.1 Phonological accommodation 225
6.1.2 Morphophonological accommodation 225
6.1.3 Morphological accommodation 226
6.1.4 Morphosyntactic accommodation 228
6.1.5 Summary 230
6.2 Feature copy 230
6.2.1 Gender agreement 231
6.2.2 Subject-verb agreement 232
6.2.3 Summary 233
6.3 Feature stranding 234
6.3.1 Spell-out of feature bundles 235
6.3.2 Phonological readjustment 236
6.3.3 Context-sensitive spell-out of features 237
6.3.4 Summary 239
6.4 Local licensing 240
6.4.1 Phonological readjustment and suppletion 242
6.4.2 Morpheme insertion 246
6.4.3 Competing nominalizations and DP-internal structure 250
6.4.4 Accounting for categorial identity 252
6.4.4.1 The role of licensing in root exchanges 254
6.4.4.2 The role of adjacency in root exchanges 256
6.4.5 Summary 262
6.4.6 An alternative account: Minimize Exponence 263
6.5 “Action!”: Two complex cases 267
6.5.1 Error #1: Morpheme insertion, feature copy & readjustment 267
6.5.2 Error #2: Case assignment, morpheme insertion & feature copy 270
6.6 Against repair strategies 273
6.6.1 Reconsidering (morpho)phonological accommodation 274
6.6.2 An exception: Lexical construal 278
6.6.3 A possible surface filter 280
6.6.4 Summary 285
6.7 Repairs: Two further issues 286
6.7.1 Too late for repair 286
6.7.1.1 Morpheme stranding 287
6.7.1.2 Feature mismatch within DP 287
6.7.1.3 Subcategorization errors 291
6.7.1.4 Summary 292
6.7.2 Partial repair 295
6.7.3 Summary 298
6.8 Conclusion 298
chapter 7
Conclusion 301
7.1 Language production in the DM-model 302
7.2 Speech errors in the DM-model 306
7.3 Problems and perspectives 311
appendix
Speech error data 315
Appendix I: Notational conventions 315
Appendix II: Error distribution 316
Appendix III: Semantic anticipation & perseveration 317
III.1 Semantic anticipation 317
III.2 Semantic perseveration 318
Appendix IV: Feature mismatch 318
IV.1 Local subject-verb agreement 318
IV.2 Long-distance subject-verb agreement 327
IV.3 Feature mismatch on pronoun 329
IV.4 Feature mismatch within DP 331
IV.5 Subcategorization errors 334
Appendix V: Feature stranding & feature shift 336
V.1 Feature stranding 336
V.2 Feature shift 339
Appendix VI: Accommodation 342
VI.1 Feature copy 342
VI.2 Feature stranding 345
VI.3 Local licensing 347
VI.4 Combined effects 349
VI.5 Lexical construal 351
References 353
Subject index 369

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