Elsevier

Cognition

Volume 7, Issue 3, 1979, Pages 285-299
Cognition

Speeded recognition of ungrammaticality: Double violations

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Abstract

A model of sentence comprehension postulating that Subject-Verb-Object relations are specified prior to Noun-Adjective relations received support from a study of the speed at which sentences with various kinds of violations could be rejected. Compatible with the sequential model was the finding that Noun-Verb and Adjective-Noun double violations did not result in shorter RTs than Noun-Verb single violations — even though sentences with double violations were judged to be less acceptable.

Résumé

Une étude portant sur la vitesse de rejet des phrases comportant différents types de violations dans les relations Sujet-Verbe-Objet et Nom-Adjectif a permis d'appuyer la proposition que les relations S-V-O sont spécifiques antérieurement aux relations N-A. Le fait qu'une double violation Nom-Verbe et Adjectif-Nom n'entraîne pas un temps de réaction supérieur à celui qu'entraîne la violation Nom-Verbe seule semble compatible avec un modéle séquentiel même lorsque les phrases avec double violation sont jugées moins acceptables.

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