Middle ratings rise regardless of grammatical construction: Testing syntactic variability in a repeated exposure paradigm.

People perceive sentences more favourably after hearing or reading them many times. A prominent approach in linguistic theory argues that these types of exposure effects (satiation effects) show direct evidence of a generative approach to linguistic knowledge: only some sentences improve under repea...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales:	J M M Brown, Gisbert Fanselow, Rebecca Hall, Reinhold Kliegl
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/40e7a48f0d1848bf8b674d8f88eec941
Etiquetas:	Agregar Etiqueta Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!

id	oai:doaj.org-article:40e7a48f0d1848bf8b674d8f88eec941
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:40e7a48f0d1848bf8b674d8f88eec9412021-12-02T20:11:20ZMiddle ratings rise regardless of grammatical construction: Testing syntactic variability in a repeated exposure paradigm.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0251280https://doaj.org/article/40e7a48f0d1848bf8b674d8f88eec9412021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251280https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203People perceive sentences more favourably after hearing or reading them many times. A prominent approach in linguistic theory argues that these types of exposure effects (satiation effects) show direct evidence of a generative approach to linguistic knowledge: only some sentences improve under repeated exposure, and which sentences do improve can be predicted by a model of linguistic competence that yields natural syntactic classes. However, replications of the original findings have been inconsistent, and it remains unclear whether satiation effects can be reliably induced in an experimental setting at all. Here we report four findings regarding satiation effects in wh-questions across German and English. First, the effects pertain to zone of well-formedness rather than syntactic class: all intermediate ratings, including calibrated fillers, increase at the beginning of the experimental session regardless of syntactic construction. Second, though there is satiation, ratings asymptote below maximum acceptability. Third, these effects are consistent across judgments of superiority effects in English and German. Fourth, wh-questions appear to show similar profiles in English and German, despite these languages being traditionally considered to differ strongly in whether they show effects on movement: violations of the superiority condition can be modulated to a similar degree in both languages by manipulating subject-object initiality and animacy congruency of the wh-phrase. We improve on classic satiation methods by distinguishing between two crucial tests, namely whether exposure selectively targets certain grammatical constructions or whether there is a general repeated exposure effect. We conclude that exposure effects can be reliably induced in rating experiments but exposure does not appear to selectively target certain grammatical constructions. Instead, they appear to be a phenomenon of intermediate gradient judgments.J M M BrownGisbert FanselowRebecca HallReinhold KlieglPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 5, p e0251280 (2021)
institution	DOAJ
collection	DOAJ
language	EN
topic	Medicine R Science Q
spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q J M M Brown Gisbert Fanselow Rebecca Hall Reinhold Kliegl Middle ratings rise regardless of grammatical construction: Testing syntactic variability in a repeated exposure paradigm.
description	People perceive sentences more favourably after hearing or reading them many times. A prominent approach in linguistic theory argues that these types of exposure effects (satiation effects) show direct evidence of a generative approach to linguistic knowledge: only some sentences improve under repeated exposure, and which sentences do improve can be predicted by a model of linguistic competence that yields natural syntactic classes. However, replications of the original findings have been inconsistent, and it remains unclear whether satiation effects can be reliably induced in an experimental setting at all. Here we report four findings regarding satiation effects in wh-questions across German and English. First, the effects pertain to zone of well-formedness rather than syntactic class: all intermediate ratings, including calibrated fillers, increase at the beginning of the experimental session regardless of syntactic construction. Second, though there is satiation, ratings asymptote below maximum acceptability. Third, these effects are consistent across judgments of superiority effects in English and German. Fourth, wh-questions appear to show similar profiles in English and German, despite these languages being traditionally considered to differ strongly in whether they show effects on movement: violations of the superiority condition can be modulated to a similar degree in both languages by manipulating subject-object initiality and animacy congruency of the wh-phrase. We improve on classic satiation methods by distinguishing between two crucial tests, namely whether exposure selectively targets certain grammatical constructions or whether there is a general repeated exposure effect. We conclude that exposure effects can be reliably induced in rating experiments but exposure does not appear to selectively target certain grammatical constructions. Instead, they appear to be a phenomenon of intermediate gradient judgments.
format	article
author	J M M Brown Gisbert Fanselow Rebecca Hall Reinhold Kliegl
author_facet	J M M Brown Gisbert Fanselow Rebecca Hall Reinhold Kliegl
author_sort	J M M Brown
title	Middle ratings rise regardless of grammatical construction: Testing syntactic variability in a repeated exposure paradigm.
title_short	Middle ratings rise regardless of grammatical construction: Testing syntactic variability in a repeated exposure paradigm.
title_full	Middle ratings rise regardless of grammatical construction: Testing syntactic variability in a repeated exposure paradigm.
title_fullStr	Middle ratings rise regardless of grammatical construction: Testing syntactic variability in a repeated exposure paradigm.
title_full_unstemmed	Middle ratings rise regardless of grammatical construction: Testing syntactic variability in a repeated exposure paradigm.
title_sort	middle ratings rise regardless of grammatical construction: testing syntactic variability in a repeated exposure paradigm.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/40e7a48f0d1848bf8b674d8f88eec941
work_keys_str_mv	AT jmmbrown middleratingsriseregardlessofgrammaticalconstructiontestingsyntacticvariabilityinarepeatedexposureparadigm AT gisbertfanselow middleratingsriseregardlessofgrammaticalconstructiontestingsyntacticvariabilityinarepeatedexposureparadigm AT rebeccahall middleratingsriseregardlessofgrammaticalconstructiontestingsyntacticvariabilityinarepeatedexposureparadigm AT reinholdkliegl middleratingsriseregardlessofgrammaticalconstructiontestingsyntacticvariabilityinarepeatedexposureparadigm
_version_	1718374878626709504

Middle ratings rise regardless of grammatical construction: Testing syntactic variability in a repeated exposure paradigm.

Ejemplares similares