1. Planning Scope in Spoken Sentence Production: The Role of Grammatical Units.
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Allum, Paul H. and Wheeldon, Linda R.
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SENTENCES (Grammar) , *GRAMMAR , *PHRASE structure grammar , *SPEECH , *GENERATIVE grammar - Abstract
Four experiments investigate the scope of grammatical planning during spoken sentence production in Japanese and English. Experiment I shows that sentence latencies vary with length of sentence-initial subject phrase. Exploiting the head-final property of Japanese, Experiments 2 and 3 extend this result by showing that in a 2-phrase subject phrase, sentence latency varies with the length of the sentence-initial phrase rather than that of the whole subject phrase or its head phrase. Experiment 4 confirms this finding in English. The authors' interpretation suggests that these effects derive from grammatical encoding processes. Planning scope varies according to the relation between the 2 phrases composing the subject phrase. A thematically defined functional phrase is suggested as defining this scope. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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