Index of tables

Table 1.1 Concept types and modes of determination 15

Table 1.2 The distinction of six noun classes according to Rijkhoff 17

Table 3.1 Length of critical vocalic section in the forced choice experiment 129

Table 3.2 Metadata of the participants of the forced choice experiment 131

Table 3.3 Responses to the forced choice experiment 132

Table 3.4 ANOVA results for the forced choice experiment 132

Table 3.5 Performance according to item type 133

Table 3.6 Corpus cleaning through removal of unanalyzable and irrelevant word forms 139

Table 3.7 Categories for PAC-coding 140

Table 3.8 Raw frequency of word-final letters in the corpus 142

Table 3.9Strategies and phenomena for V-articles 149

Table 3.10A hierarchy for blocking OCP effects on Romance V-articles 151

Table 4.1Results from the frog story experimental corpus 172

Table 4.2Word and NP frequencies in the JdB corpus 175

Table 4.3BS absolute frequencies in the JdB corpus in different contexts 177

Table 4.4Relative frequencies of BrP BSs and Stemberger’s “slips of the tongue” 182

Table 4.5Distribution of specific BSs in the open corpus + JdB 188

Table 4.6The discursive status of definite/specific BSs 192

Table 4.7Some lexical semantic properties of definite/specific BSs 193

Table 4.8Distribution of BS NP structures 193

Table 4.9Matrix verbs of definite/specific BS sentences and linear position of the BSs 194

Table 5.1Overview of AJTs on BrP BNs 209

Table 5.2Some results from Bra2 209

Table 5.3Some results from Pir1 209

Table 5.4Average acceptability ratings from a four-point scale from Ion1 211

Table 5.5Mean acceptability judgments from the 5-point scale from Mar2 212

Table 5.6Mean acceptability judgments form a 7 point scale from Wal1 213

Table 5.7Participant information for Wal3 and Wal4 228

Table 5.8 Design of sentence materials in Wal3, 4 232

Table 5.9Factors and conditions for Wal3 and Wal4 242

Table 5.10ANOVA results for Wal3 and Wal4, analyzed together 242

Table 5.11ANOVA results for Wal3 and Wal4, analyzed separately 243

Table 6.1Labels, symbols and definitions of some syntactic properties 260