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Grammatical intuitions about irregular verb inflections.

Arnold L Glass, James Lau

    The American Journal of Psychology
    |April 25, 2003
    PubMed
    Summary

    Misinflected irregular verbs like "comed" seem unacceptable because they prime their correct forms, like "came." Higher frequency of the correct form increases this unacceptability, as shown in three experiments on lexical priming.

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    Area of Science:

    • Psycholinguistics
    • Cognitive Psychology
    • Linguistics

    Background:

    • The regular past tense rule (-ed suffix) is often overgeneralized to irregular verbs.
    • The unacceptability of forms like "comed" suggests underlying cognitive mechanisms beyond simple rule application.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate the role of lexical priming in the perceived unacceptability of misinflected irregular verbs.
    • To determine if the frequency of the correct irregular verb form influences the acceptability of its misinflected counterpart.

    Main Methods:

    • Three experiments were conducted using behavioral tasks.
    • Experiment 1: Reaction times to reject misinflected verbs were measured.
    • Experiments 2 & 3: Lexical decision tasks and naming tasks assessed priming effects between misinflected and correct verb forms.

    Main Results:

    • Subjects were faster to reject misinflected verbs when their correct irregular forms were high frequency.
    • Higher frequency of the correct form correlated with greater perceived unacceptability of the misinflected form.
    • Misinflected verbs facilitated the naming of their correct forms, supporting the lexical priming hypothesis.

    Conclusions:

    • The unacceptability of misinflected irregular verbs is mediated by lexical priming effects.
    • The frequency of the correct irregular verb form plays a significant role in this priming process.
    • Misinflected forms access their correct counterparts, influencing acceptability judgments.

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