Verb bias and verb-specific competition effects on sentence production.

How do speakers choose between structural options for expressing a given meaning? Overall preference for some structures over others as well as prior statistical association between specific verbs and sentence structures ("verb bias") are known to broadly influence language use. However, t...

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Main Authors: Malathi Thothathiri, Daniel G Evans, Sonali Poudel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5495483?pdf=render