Linguistic intuitions are the result of interactions between perceptual processes and linguistic universals. Gerken, L. & Bever, T. Cognit Sci, 10(4):457–476, 1986.
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Examined the relationship between variation in informant's grammaticality intuitions about pronoun coreference and variation in their use of a clause segmentation strategy during sentence perception. 24 undergraduates were examined on judgment of pronoun-noun coreference in which the noun antecedent was contained in a complement structure dominated by either the sentence-node (higher than the pronoun) or the verb-phrase-node (not higher than the pronoun). Ss' perceptual clause-closure tendency was assessed using an auditory word-monitor paradigm. Results indicate that the linguistic universal controlling within-sentence coreference applied to the perceptually available structure for a sequence, not to its pure linguistic structure. Hence, linguistic intuitions result from the interaction of language-specific knowledge, perceptual processes, and linguistic universals.
@Article{Gerken1986,
  author   = {Gerken, LouAnn and Bever, Thomas},
  journal  = {Cognit Sci},
  title    = {Linguistic intuitions are the result of interactions between perceptual processes and linguistic universals},
  year     = {1986},
  number   = {4},
  pages    = {457--476},
  volume   = {10},
  abstract = {Examined the relationship between variation in informant's grammaticality
	intuitions about pronoun coreference and variation in their use of
	a clause segmentation strategy during sentence perception. 24 undergraduates
	were examined on judgment of pronoun-noun coreference in which the
	noun antecedent was contained in a complement structure dominated
	by either the sentence-node (higher than the pronoun) or the verb-phrase-node
	(not higher than the pronoun). Ss' perceptual clause-closure tendency
	was assessed using an auditory word-monitor paradigm. Results indicate
	that the linguistic universal controlling within-sentence coreference
	applied to the perceptually available structure for a sequence, not
	to its pure linguistic structure. Hence, linguistic intuitions result
	from the interaction of language-specific knowledge, perceptual processes,
	and linguistic universals.},
}

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