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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Linguistic Theory
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Sentence processing models suggest grammatical items are encoded after lexical items.
  • Usage-based linguistic theory posits grammatical elements have features like dependence and low prominence.
  • These features may influence production speed and accuracy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate differences in the production of grammatical and lexical determiners in Danish adjective-noun phrases (NPs).
  • To test predictions derived from Boye and Harder's (2012) usage-based linguistic theory regarding grammatical element processing.
  • To examine the influence of speaker speed on these production differences.

Main Methods:

  • A production task comparing Danish grammatical determiners (indefinite articles) with lexical determiners (numerals).
  • Stimuli involved similar contexts for both determiner types, with numerals differing primarily by stress.
  • Group-based analyses were conducted to account for inter-individual differences in processing speed.

Main Results:

  • Production differences linked to grammatical element features (dependence, low prominence) were observed.
  • These differences were significant only in the fastest speakers group.
  • Slower speakers did not exhibit the predicted patterns of longer reaction times or lower accuracy for grammatical determiners.

Conclusions:

  • The findings partially support Boye and Harder's (2012) theory, indicating that processing characteristics of grammatical elements are speaker-dependent.
  • Speaker processing speed is a crucial factor in revealing the proposed features of grammatical elements.
  • Further research may explore the cognitive mechanisms underlying these variations in production.