The negative concord illusion : an acceptability study with Czech neg-words
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2024-0061" target="_blank" >10.1515/lingvan-2024-0061</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The negative concord illusion : an acceptability study with Czech neg-words
Original language description
Languages such as Czech exhibit negative concord, a requirement for any neg-word (e.g., 'nobody') in a clause to be accompanied by sentential negation. Theoretical treatments see this phenomenon as either a case of syntactic agreement or subsume it under negative polarity item (NPI) licensing. Interestingly, in the processing of both agreement and NPIs, the inclusion of a distractor element can induce comprehenders to accept otherwise ungrammatical sentences. We tested whether such grammaticality illusions also arise with negative concord. We ran an acceptability judgement study with native speakers of Czech to see whether the inclusion of an irrelevant negated verb in a relative clause caused them to accept an ungrammatical sentence with an unlicensed neg-word. This tendency was clearly seen in the speeded acceptability judgement task (Experiment 1), but not when participants had enough time for their answers (Experiment 2), a pattern typical for linguistic illusions. Our results thus show that there is indeed an effect – the negative concord illusion.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Linguistics Vanguard
ISSN
2199-174X
e-ISSN
2199-174X
Volume of the periodical
11
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
277-288
UT code for WoS article
001424875700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85218758019