Interaction of form and content in metalinguistic judgments

The paper presents empirical studies on the effects of formal, grammatical correctness and content correctness on metalinguistic judgments of Hungarian sentences while the self-consciousness of the subjects was varied by using a mirror during the task. The empirical study relates to the theoretical...

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Published inArgumentum Vol. 15; pp. 316 - 331
Main Authors Pléh, Csaba, Ivády, Rozália Eszter, Nagy-György, Judit
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Debrecen University of Debrecen 01.01.2019
Subjects
Grammar
Hungarian language
Knowledge
Language
Lexical semantics
Linguistics
Metalinguistics
Perceptions
Pragmatics
Semantics
Sentences
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Summary:The paper presents empirical studies on the effects of formal, grammatical correctness and content correctness on metalinguistic judgments of Hungarian sentences while the self-consciousness of the subjects was varied by using a mirror during the task. The empirical study relates to the theoretical rivalry issue of primacy of form or pragmatics in sentence processing and metalinguistic judgements. The aspect of content was less important than that of form. Even so, subjects only accepted 21% of the grammatically correct sentences with a semantic anomaly. There was a significant difference between perceptual vs lexico-semantical types of knowledge: we tend to accept sentences based on lexico-semantic knowledge more readily. We tend to accept everything we do not know for certain.
ISSN:1787-3606
1787-3606