Prosodic influence on syntactic judgments

要旨

We argue for the importance of controlling prosody in soliciting syntactic judgments. Through the analysis of a variety pf complex Wh-constructions in Japanese, we first attempt to reveal that a construction which requires a non-default prosody is vulnerable to misjudgments of syntactic wellformedness when it is presented to the subjects in writing. We then report on our pilot experiments on the comparison of grammaticality judgments of written and spoken sentences in both English and Japanese, which supports our claim.

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