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If experimental data on potential pseudo-verbs (cf. the classic wug tests
à la Berko 1958) in a language with a considerable number of verb
paradigms are needed, you might benefit from peeking into the following
text: <br><br>
Jussi Niemi: Paradigm Competition in Inflection: An Experimental Note on
Finnish Verbs. <i>SKY Journal of Linguistics</i> 19 (2006), which can be
downloaded from
<a href="http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/julkaisut/sky2006special.shtml" eudora="autourl">
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/julkaisut/sky2006special.shtml</a><br><br>
In this study the verbs were embedded in controlled carrier sentences,
and a restricted set of "paradigmatically critical" forms -- if
correct -- were to be elicited. <br><br>
Jussi Niemi<br><br>
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At 18:52 14.2.2007, kkennedy@clarku.edu wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Dear all,<br><br>
We are currently working on a senior capstone project at Clark
University<br>
trying to replicate with an adult population some of the work Nancy
Budwig<br>
and several of the graduate students (Enila Cenko, Juan Hu, Kaya
Ono,<br>
Smita Srivastava) have been doing with novel verb experiments with<br>
preschoolers speaking a variety of languages. The question we have
been<br>
curious about is how adults do in similar tasks, in particular
whether<br>
they produce novel verbs modeled in one construction in constructions
they<br>
have not heard the verbs used in, and whether this differs when
training<br>
takes place in transitive versus intransitive constructions. Our own<br>
search for novel verb experiments with adult populations has not turned
up<br>
much; we would be grateful for recommendations of studies that
address<br>
this topic.<br><br>
Many thanks for your help.<br><br>
Kevin Kennedy & Jason Edgarton<br>
Undergraduate students, Clark U. '07<br><br>
Kkennedy@clarku.edu<br>
Jaedgarton@clarku.edu</blockquote>
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Jussi Niemi, PhD<br>
Professor, Linguistics, University of Joensuu, POB 111 (Yliopistokatu 4),
FIN-80101 Joensuu, Finland<br>
Phones: +358-13-251 4306 (office), +358-13-251 3198 (Linguistics Lab),
+358-50-3034337 (mobile), +358-13-228723 (home)<br>
Fax:<x-tab> </x-tab>+358-13-251 4211<br>
jussi.niemi@joensuu.fi,
<a href="http://cc.joensuu.fi/linguistics" eudora="autourl">
http://cc.joensuu.fi/linguistics<br><br>
</a>Nordic Association of Linguists (NAL)<br>
<a href="http://cc.joensuu.fi/linguistics/nal.html" eudora="autourl">
http://cc.joensuu.fi/linguistics/nal.html<br><br>
</a>Joint European Masters Programme in Clinical Linguistics (EMCL)<br>
<a href="http://www.emcl-mundus.com/html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.emcl-mundus.com/html<br><br>
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