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Between Number Sense and Number Syntax| old_uid | 6292 |
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| title | Between Number Sense and Number Syntax |
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| start_date | 2009/02/17 |
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| schedule | 15h45-17h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | Big Conference Room (1.63) |
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| summary | Grammatical agreement is a prototype of what syntax does for language and language users, flagging linguistically the parts of utterances that belong together mentally. The power of agreement, like syntax more generally, is that it works whether or not the parts that belong together mentally appear together linguistically. The aim in this talk is to survey current views and and ongoing research about how agreement builds bridges between number sense and number syntax during language production. In production, systematic variations in number agreement point to basic psycholinguistic mechanisms of agreement implementation, including notional valuation, lexical specification, and transmission of agreement features. Notably, verbs and pronouns are differently sensitive to notional number differences in agreement controllers but equally and surprisingly insensitive to notional differences in spurious controllers. To explore the foundations of these agreement variations within word production, new studies of number apprehension and notional number valuation have begun to trace a primitive link between native number perception and basic number grammar. |
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| responsibles | Zondervan |
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