Naslov
Grammaticality judgments and language usage data: a case study on Croatian clitic placement
(Grammaticality judgments and language usage data.)

Autori
Ćavar, Damir ; Brozović Rončević, Dunja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
Proceedings of the fourth Corpus Linguistics conference 2007, Corpus and Cognition Colloquium: The relation between natural and experimental language data / - Birmingham, 2007

Skup
Corpus Linguistics conference 2007

Mjesto i datum
Birmingham, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo, 27.07.2007. - 30.07.2007

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
grammaticality judgements; Croatian; psycholinguistic experiments

Sažetak
In this paper we discuss the results of a corpus-based study of clitic placement and clitic clusters in Croatian, accompanied by results from experiments on gradual grammaticality judgments using acoustic sentence repetition, and text correction tasks. On the one hand, we suggest that the uncertainty about specific low-frequent constructions in corpora, which could be due to errors of writers and reviewers, or to real variation and soft grammatical constraints of native speakers, can be eliminated on the basis of results from psycholinguistic experiments. On the other hand, the rather plausible conclusion that the relative frequency of particular constructions in corpora correlates with the certainty of grammaticality judgments of native speakers, as well as their sensitivity to identify normative or prescriptive deviations, can find empirical support, using quantitative analysis of corpora and psycholinguistic experiments.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

POVEZANOST RADA