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missing VP effect: a standalone construct

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Psycholinguistics

grammaticality illusion in which doubly center-embedded sentences missing a verb phrase are judged as acceptable as complete versions.

In psycholinguistics, missing VP effect refers to grammaticality illusion in which doubly center-embedded sentences missing a verb phrase are judged as acceptable as complete versions. This meaning comes from Gibson (1999) in Language and Cognitive Processes.[1]

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phrase3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Gibson, E., & Thomas, J. (1999). Memory Limitations and Structural Forgetting: The Perception of Complex Ungrammatical Sentences as Grammatical. Language and Cognitive Processes, 14(3), 225-248. https://doi.org/10.1080/016909699386293

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