The negative concord illusion : an acceptability study with Czech neg-words

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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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The negative concord illusion : an acceptability study with Czech neg-words

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The negative concord illusion : an acceptability study with Czech neg-words

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Linguistics Vanguard

ISSN

2199-174X

e-ISSN

2199-174X

Svazek periodika

11

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

DE - Spolková republika Německo

Počet stran výsledku

12

Strana od-do

277-288

Kód UT WoS článku

001424875700001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85218758019