This paper investigates the time it takes unconscious vs. conscious knowledge to form by using an improved "no-loss gambling" method to measure awareness of knowing. Subjects could either bet on a transparently random process or on their grammaticality judgment in an artificial grammar learning task. A conflict in the literature is resolved concerning whether unconscious rather than conscious k...

Introduction Typically, broad-coverage precision grammars are based on grammaticality judgment data and syntactic intuition, and corpus data is relegated to secondary status in guiding lexicon and grammar development. On the other end of the scale, shallow grammars are often induced directly from treebank data and make little or no use of grammaticality judgments or intuition. This tends to cau...

This chapter investigates the time it takes unconscious versus conscious knowledge to form by using an improved “no-loss gambling” method to measure awareness of knowing. Subjects could either bet on a transparently random process or on their grammaticality judgment in an artificial grammar learning task. A conflict in the literature is resolved concerning whether unconscious rather than consci...

We report three experiments on French that explore number mismatch effects in intervention configurations in the comprehension of object A'-dependencies, relative clauses and questions. The study capitalizes on the finding of object attraction in sentence production, in which speakers sometimes erroneously produce a verb that agrees in number with a plural object in object relative clauses. Evi...

Syntax and sociophonetics are typically treated as wildly disjointed (possibly even incompatible) theoretical pursuits. This paper seeks to unite sociophonetic speech perception syntax research by presenting participants with matching or mismatching social expectations during a structural grammaticality judgment task. Place is the unifying association between guise structure. Participants compl...

Faroese has attracted the interest of syntacticians particularly since the work of Jonas (1996), as her work suggested that Faroese is current undergoing the loss of V-to-T, a change that was completed in the Mainland Scandinavian languages three centuries ago. This phenomenon in Faroese is thus of potential interest for two reasons. First, it holds out the prospect of being able to bring the t...