Novel verb experiments

[Jussi Niemi]

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:

Jussi Niemi: Paradigm Competition in Inflection: 
An Experimental Note on Finnish Verbs. SKY 
Journal of Linguistics 19 (2006), which can be 
downloaded from http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/julkaisut/sky2006special.shtml

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.

Jussi Niemi





At 18:52 14.2.2007, kkennedy at clarku.edu wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>We are currently working on a senior capstone project at Clark University
>trying to replicate with an adult population some of the work Nancy Budwig
>and several of the graduate students (Enila Cenko, Juan Hu, Kaya Ono,
>Smita Srivastava) have been doing with novel verb experiments with
>preschoolers speaking a variety of languages. The question we have been
>curious about is how adults do in similar tasks, in particular whether
>they produce novel verbs modeled in one construction in constructions they
>have not heard the verbs used in, and whether this differs when training
>takes place in transitive versus intransitive constructions. Our own
>search for novel verb experiments with adult populations has not turned up
>much; we would be grateful for recommendations of studies that address
>this topic.
>
>Many thanks for your help.
>
>Kevin Kennedy & Jason Edgarton
>Undergraduate students, Clark U. '07
>
>Kkennedy at clarku.edu
>Jaedgarton at clarku.edu

Jussi Niemi, PhD
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