Schlesewsky, M.Bornkessel, I.McElree, B.2025-12-172025-12-172006Source details - Title: Gradience in grammar: generative perspectives, 2006, Ch.7, pp.124-14201992747979780191705861https://hdl.handle.net/11541.2/119758<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This chapter characterizes the critical phenomena from a behavioural perspective before turning to experimental methods, yielding more fine-grained data. It examines how linguistic judgments emerge from the real-time comprehension processes by drawing upon studies of word order variation in German. Based on a number of empirical observations, it argues that gradient data need not be interpreted as evidence against categorical grammars. Instead, gradience can come from a complex interaction between grammar-internal requirements, processing mechanisms, general cognitive constraints, and the environment within which the judgment task is performed.</jats:p>enBook chapter10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199274796.003.00072-s2.0-84919848539