Bermel, N. orcid.org/0000-0002-1663-9322, Knittl, L. and Nikolaev, A. (2023) Uncertainty in the production of Czech noun and verb forms. Word Structure, 16 (2-3). pp. 258-283. ISSN 1750-1245
Abstract
We examine the reactions of Czech native speakers to cues asking them to supply inflectional forms of nouns and verbs that are either canonical (non-variant), overabundant, or supposedly defective, to see what distinguishing characteristics these three conditions have for production. We find that respondents handle defective material differently from other conditions, producing different sorts of forms at different frequencies, and taking significantly longer to do so. Overabundant cells pattern at the individual level like canonical inflectional cells, but collectively display a significantly more varied and less focused spread of forms produced than our canonical cells. The individual dimension of uncertainty in production is thus limited to defective cells, but the collective dimension of uncertainty is evident between all three conditions.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Authors. Except as otherwise noted, this author-accepted version of a journal article published in Word Structure is made available via the University of Sheffield Research Publications and Copyright Policy under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Keywords: | overabundance; defectivity; reaction times; inflection; Czech |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of Languages and Cultures (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL AH/T002859/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 13 Jul 2023 10:56 |
Last Modified: | 23 Nov 2023 09:53 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.3366/word.2023.0231 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:201518 |
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