Agrammatism in Tagalog: voice and relativisation

Bondoc, Ivan Paul; O’Grady, William; Deen, Kamil Ud; Tanaka, Nozomi

doi:10.1080/02687038.2017.1366417

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“…We found that agents in Tagalog are somehow privileged in filler-gap dependency processing, as exemplified by the AV-PV asymmetry in ay-inverted sentences-and potentially, relative clauses, as well. A similar asymmetry has been observed by Tanaka et al (2019) in Tagalog-speaking children's acquisition of relative clauses, and by Bondoc et al (2018) in the development of the relativization grammar of aphasics. Sauppe (2016) also observed that agents are privileged when processing canonical declaratives in the language.…”

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“…What the present study is interested in is whether voice will be deployed as a cue in contexts where an argument is displaced from its thematic position and has to be held in working memory. Bondoc et al (2018) and Tanaka et al (2019) used a referent-selection task, a modified version of a picture-selection task, to investigate the comprehension of relative clauses in neurotypical and aphasic populations, respectively. While these studies do involve contexts where an argument is displaced from its thematic position, their results are based on interpretations that are the end state of comprehension.…”

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The Predictive Value of Tagalog Voice Morphology in Filler-Gap Dependency Formation

Pizarro-Guevara

Wagers

2020

Front. Psychol.

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Research has shown that when processing filler-gap dependencies, comprehenders do not wait until they encounter all of the bottom-up information in the input. Instead, they use various types of linguistic information to predictively posit a gap that would allow the dependency to be resolved. They can use syntactic (Traxler and Pickering, 1996), lexical (Trueswell et al., 1994), morphological (Kamide et al., 2003), and prosodic (Nagel et al., 1994) information. Here we examine whether Tagalog comprehenders use the language's voice morphology to guide their incremental interpretations. We hypothesized that voice allows comprehenders to commit to an interpretation upon encountering the verb, since they have information about the event structure at this point in time and by virtue of the voice morphology, the thematic role of the filler. In experiment 1, using an acceptability judgment study, we found that comprehenders differed in how they used the different voices in different filler-gap contexts to detect the licitness of displacements. These differences may have consequences for how voice is used in real-time. In experiments 2 and 3, using the stops-making-sense paradigm (Boland et al., 1990), we found that comprehenders used voice as a cue to actively associate the filler with the gap. However, in experiment 3, the way in which they used voice varied by type and varied across types of filler-gap dependencies. We argue that comprehenders were using construction-specific cue validities when processing filler-gap dependencies. However, they also engaged with other classes of linguistic information, including (but not limited to) information about the structural similarities and the thematic complexity of the dependencies involved, and the relative frequency of the different types of voices in the language. These interactions resulted in processing asymmetries.

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The Predictive Value of Tagalog Voice Morphology in Filler-Gap Dependency Formation

Pizarro-Guevara

Wagers

2020

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“…These facts notwithstanding, some previous experimental work has shown an agent RC preference. Of particular interest is a study by Bondoc, O’Grady, Deen, and Tanaka (2018) on language loss in Tagalog. They report an agent RC advantage in both comprehension and production in patients with agrammatic aphasia.…”

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An asymmetry in the acquisition of relative clauses: Evidence from Tagalog

Tanaka

O’Grady²,

Deen³

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This article reports on the acquisition of relative clauses in Tagalog, the most widely spoken language in the Philippines. A distinctive feature of Tagalog is a unique system of voice that creates competing patterns, each with different possibilities for relativization. This study of children’s performance on agent and patient relative clauses in a comprehension task revealed an agent relative clause advantage. These findings cannot be explained by the voice preference in declarative clauses, but are compatible with an explanation based upon input frequency factors.

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“…In "good-enough" processing models, comprehenders tend to apply heuristic strategies that allow them to identify the first nominal as the agent of the event (Ferreira, 2003;Ferreira et al, 2002Ferreira et al, , 2009Karimi & Ferreira, 2016). In psycholinguistic work on Tagalog, a preference for agent-first word orders has been observed in multiple populations, such as adults with aphasia (Bondoc et al, 2018) and typically developing children (Bautista, 1983;Garcia et al, 2018;Garcia et al, 2020;Garcia et al, 2019;Segalowitz & Galang, 1978;Tanaka, 2016).…”

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“…Offline production work on AV versus PV sentences with agent and patient arguments has shown mixed results for agent and pivot placement. Some studies report an agent-first tendency in Tagalog declaratives (Bondoc et al, 2018); some describe a pivot-final (or pivotsecond) tendency (Sauppe et al, 2013;Tanaka, 2015Tanaka, , 2016; while some describe the simultaneous influence of both of these two tendencies in linear word order (Garcia et al, 2018). With regard to real-time production, Sauppe et al (2013) explored the time course of sentence formulation in Tagalog sentences involving agent and patient arguments using visual world eyetracking.…”

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Differential effects of agency, animacy, and syntactic prominence on production and comprehension: Evidence from a verb-initial language.

Bondoc¹,

Schafer²

2022

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne

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Effects of animacy and agent prominence in linguistic and cognitive processing are well-established in the literature. However, it is less clear how strongly an agent argument will influence production and comprehension when a sentence also contains another prominent argument. We examine this question with Tagalog, a verb-initial language, which designates a syntactically prominent, subject-like element (the pivot) without demoting the grammatical status of the core agent. We implemented two experiments that investigated the influences of agent and pivot prominence on syntactic linear word order patterns in production and on anticipatory gaze patterns in comprehension. Tagalog’s grammar allowed us to separate the influence of agentivity from animacy by manipulating the animacy of the pivot (animate pivots: agent and benefactive voices; inanimate pivots: patient and instrument voices). The production results contrasted with the comprehension results: agent and pivot prominence both emerged strongly in a fragment-completion production task, but animacy dominated anticipatory gaze patterns in a visual-world comprehension task. The results of these experiments demonstrate variability in production and comprehension outcomes as well as an apparent mismatch between the constraints that shape these two systems, which we attribute to contrasting goals in production versus comprehension and to the organization of information in verb-initial languages. The investigation highlights the value of research on languages with typologically understudied structural properties in revealing mechanisms of the production and comprehension systems.

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Agrammatism in Tagalog: voice and relativisation

Cited by 10 publications

References 19 publications

The Predictive Value of Tagalog Voice Morphology in Filler-Gap Dependency Formation

The Predictive Value of Tagalog Voice Morphology in Filler-Gap Dependency Formation

An asymmetry in the acquisition of relative clauses: Evidence from Tagalog

Differential effects of agency, animacy, and syntactic prominence on production and comprehension: Evidence from a verb-initial language.

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