Replication Data for: Universal linguistic hierarchies are not innately wired (doi:10.18710/NTLLUF)

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Replication Data for: Universal linguistic hierarchies are not innately wired

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doi:10.18710/NTLLUF

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DataverseNO

Date of Distribution:

2019-07-10

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Bibliographic Citation:

Leivada, Evelina; Westergaard, Marit, 2019, "Replication Data for: Universal linguistic hierarchies are not innately wired", https://doi.org/10.18710/NTLLUF, DataverseNO, V1

Study Description

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Title:

Replication Data for: Universal linguistic hierarchies are not innately wired

Identification Number:

doi:10.18710/NTLLUF

Authoring Entity:

Leivada, Evelina (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)

Westergaard, Marit (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)

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UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Grant Number:

No 746652

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DataverseNO

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The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing)

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Leivada, Evelina

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Leivada, Evelina

Date of Deposit:

2019-07-09

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https://doi.org/10.18710/NTLLUF

Study Scope

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Arts and Humanities, experimental linguistics, forced choice experiment, Likert scale, Universal Grammar

Abstract:

This research put the nature and rigidity of linguistic hierarchies to test, taking multiple adjective placement as a case study. We developed an on-line forced choice experiment that measured (i) acceptability judgment ratings and (ii) reaction times, in a big sample of neurotypical, adult speakers of Standard Greek (n=140) and Cypriot Greek (n=30). The task compares what happens when people are asked to process sentences that either comply with or violate allegedly universal ordering constraints that have been described as the outcome of innately wired hierarchies. Our findings do not provide any evidence for a universal hierarchy for adjective ordering that imposes one rigid, unmarked order. We argue that the obtained results are effectively reducing the amount of primitives that are cast as innate, eventually offering a deflationist approach to human linguistic cognition.

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Leivada, Evelina, and Marit Westergaard. ‘Universal Linguistic Hierarchies Are Not Innately Wired. Evidence from Multiple Adjectives’. PeerJ, vol. 7, Aug. 2019, p. e7438. peerj.com, https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7438.

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10.7717/peerj.7438

Bibliographic Citation:

Leivada, Evelina, and Marit Westergaard. ‘Universal Linguistic Hierarchies Are Not Innately Wired. Evidence from Multiple Adjectives’. PeerJ, vol. 7, Aug. 2019, p. e7438. peerj.com, https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7438.

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Raw data for bidialectals (experiment 2)

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