Grammar as processor : a distributed morphology account of spontaneous speech errors / Roland Pfau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pfau, Roland.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 137.

Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 137

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphology.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology.

Language awareness.

Speech perception.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (391 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Spontaneous speech errors provide valuable evidence not only for the processes that mediate between a communicative intention and the articulation of an utterance but also for the types of grammatical entities that are manipulated during production. This study proposes an analysis of speech errors that is informed by grammar theory. In particular, it is shown how characteristic properties of erroneous German utterances can be accounted for within Distributed Morphology (DM). The investigation focuses on two groups of errors: Errors that result from the manipulation of semantic and morphosyntactic features, and errors which appear to involve the application of a post-error repair strategy. It is argued that a production model which incorporates DM allows for a straightforward account of the attested, sometimes complex, error patterns. DM mechanisms, for instance, render unnecessary the assumption of repair processes. Besides providing an account for the attested error patterns, the theory also helps us in explaining why certain errors do not occur. In this sense, DM makes for a psychologically real model of grammar.

Contents:

Grammar as Processor

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

List of abbreviations

Introduction

1.1. Motivations for investigating speech errors

1.2. The speech error corpus

1.3. A first look at the speech error data

1.3.1 Semantic anticipation and perseveration

1.3.2 Feature mismatch

1.3.3 Feature stranding and feature shift

1.3.4 Accommodation

1.4. Outline of the book

Grammar in use

2.1. On mentalism and psychological reality

2.2. The processing of grammatical structure

2.2.1 Phonological structure

2.2.1.1 Segments and segment clusters

2.2.1.2 The manipulation of subsegmental features

2.2.1.3 Suprasegmentals

2.2.2 Morphological complexity

2.2.2.1 Stranding

2.2.2.2 Non-concatenative morphology

2.2.3 Syntactic transformations

2.2.3.1 The Derivational Theory of Complexity

2.2.3.2 The psychological reality of empty elements

2.2.3.3 Transformational errors

2.3. Conclusion

Theoretical background

3.1. Multi-level models of language production

3.1.1 Processing levels

3.1.2 Lexical retrieval

3.1.3 Flow of information

3.1.4 Summary

3.2. Distributed Morphology: A sketch of the framework

3.2.1 The structure of the grammar

3.2.2 Morphological Structure

3.2.2.1 Morpheme types and local licensing

3.2.2.2 Morphological operations: Merger, insertion, and fusion

3.2.3 Phonological Form

3.2.3.1 Vocabulary insertion

3.2.3.2 Phonological readjustment

3.2.4 Summary

3.3. Conclusion

Semantic features in language production

4.1. Non-random insertion: Distinguishing cats from dogs

4.2. Semantic features in speech errors

4.2.1 Semantic substitutions

4.2.2 Semantic anticipations and perseverations

4.2.3 Summary

4.3. A note on compositional semantics

4.3.1 The count/mass distinction.

4.3.2 Semantic (natural) gender

4.3.3 Semantic negation

4.3.4 Summary

4.4. Conclusion

Morphosyntactic features in language production

5.1. The processing of grammatical gender

5.1.1 Definition and assignment of gender

5.1.2 Underspecification of grammatical gender

5.1.2.1 Gender accommodation

5.1.2.2 The identical gender effect

5.1.2.3 Against gender impoverishment

5.1.3 The limits of gender accommodation

5.1.4 Summary

5.2. Defective feature copy I: Local agreement

5.2.1 Experimental studies on proximity concord

5.2.2 Local subject-verb agreement in speech errors

5.2.2.1 Agreement with noun within subject DP

5.2.2.2 Agreement with noun within object/adjunct XP

5.2.2.3 Agreement with local nominative DP

5.2.2.4 SVA-errors in blends

5.2.2.5 The prominence of [+plural]

5.2.2.6 Morphosyntactic factors: Case and gender

5.2.2.7 Morphophonological factor: Zero-marking

5.2.2.8 Semantic factors: Animacy and collectivity

5.2.2.9 Summary

5.2.3 Transformations and feature copy

5.2.3.1 Local SVA in embedded clauses

5.2.3.2 Local SVA in matrix clauses

5.2.3.3 Summary

5.2.3.4 A note on local SVA in polar questions

5.2.4 Local SVA and the Minimalist Program

5.2.5 Local agreement involving pronouns

5.2.6 Summary

5.3. Defective feature copy II: Long-distance agreement

5.3.1 LDA in natural languages

5.3.2 LDA in speech errors

5.3.2.1 Matrix verb agrees with embedded argument

5.3.2.2 Embedded verb agrees with matrix argument

5.3.2.3 A special case: Anticipatory agreement

5.3.3 Summary: Agreement domains

5.4. Feature shift and feature stranding

5.4.1 Number

5.4.2 Tense

5.4.3 Negation

5.4.4 Gender

5.4.5 Case

5.4.6 Summary

5.5. Conclusion

Rethinking accommodation

6.1. A typology of accommodations.

6.1.1 Phonological accommodation

6.1.2 Morphophonological accommodation

6.1.3 Morphological accommodation

6.1.4 Morphosyntactic accommodation

6.1.5 Summary

6.2. Feature copy

6.2.1 Gender agreement

6.2.2 Subject-verb agreement

6.2.3 Summary

6.3. Feature stranding

6.3.1 Spell-out of feature bundles

6.3.2 Phonological readjustment

6.3.3 Context-sensitive spell-out of features

6.3.4 Summary

6.4. Local licensing

6.4.1 Phonological readjustment and suppletion

6.4.2 Morpheme insertion

6.4.3 Competing nominalizations and DP-internal structure

6.4.4 Accounting for categorial identity

6.4.4.1 The role of licensing in root exchanges

6.4.4.2 The role of adjacency in root exchanges

6.4.5 Summary

6.4.6 An alternative account: Minimize Exponence

6.5. Action!": Two complex cases

6.5.1 Error #1: Morpheme insertion, feature copy &amp

readjustment

6.5.2 Error #2: Case assignment, morpheme insertion &amp

feature copy

6.6. Against repair strategies

6.6.1 Reconsidering (morpho)phonological accommodation

6.6.2 An exception: Lexical construal

6.6.3 A possible surface filter

6.6.4 Summary

6.7. Repairs: Two further issues

6.7.1 Too late for repair

6.7.1.1 Morpheme stranding

6.7.1.2 Feature mismatch within DP

6.7.1.3 Subcategorization errors

6.7.1.4 Summary

6.7.2 Partial repair

6.7.3 Summary

6.8. Conclusion

Conclusion

7.1. Language production in the DM-model

7.2. Speech errors in the DM-model

7.3. Problems and perspectives

Speech error data

Appendix I: Notational conventions

Appendix II: Errors distribution

Appendix III: Semantic anticipation &amp

perseveration

III.1 Semantic anticipation

III.2 Semantic perseveration

Appendix IV: Feature mismatch

IV.1 Local subject-verb agreement.

IV.2 Long-distance subject-verb agreement

IV.3 Feature mismatch on pronoun

IV.4 Feature mismatch within DP

IV.5 Subcategorization errors

Appendix V: Feature stranding &amp

feature shift

V.1 Feature stranding

V.2 Feature shift

Appendix VI: Accommodation

VI.1 Feature copy

VI.2 Feature stranding

VI.3 Local licensing

VI.4 Combined effects

VI.5 Lexical construal

References

Subject index

The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-368) and index.

ISBN:

9786613469465

9781283469463

1283469464

9789027289636

9027289638

OCLC:

313791620