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Constructional contamination in morphology and syntax
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Abstract
In every-day language use, two or more structurally unrelated constructions may occasionally give rise to strings that look very similar on the surface. As a result of this superficial resemblance, a subset of instances of one of these constructions may deviate in the probabilistic preference for either of several possible formal variants. This effect is called ‘constructional contamination’, and was introduced in Pijpops & Van de Velde (2016) . Constructional contamination bears testimony to the hypothesis that language users do not always execute a full parse of the utterances they interpret, but instead often rely on ‘shallow parsing’ and the storage of large, unanalyzed chunks of language in memory, as proposed in Ferreira, Bailey, & Ferraro (2002) , Ferreira & Patson (2007) , and Dąbrowska (2014) .
Language
English
Source (journal)
Constructions and frames. - Amsterdam
Publication
Amsterdam : 2018
ISSN
1876-1933
DOI
10.1075/CF.00021.PIJ
Volume/pages
10 :2 (2018) , p. 269-305
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