5 1333 native speaker intuitions may add quantum intuitive nonsyntactician nay nonlinguist data discussion date sun 20 nov 1994 12 41 23 gmt 1200 wayne lawrence wp lawrence auckland ac nz subject sum native speaker intuitions marilyn silva recently summarised responses dealing native speaker intuitions especially respect sentence john asked mary leave notes several respondents pointed interpretation sentence determined least part pragmatically view interpretation syntactically fixed wrong point demonstrated pair examples 1 teacher asked child leave room 2 child asked teacher leave room native speaker english new zealand english syntactician nt think syntax moulded anyone else rules theories 1 2 interpret person asked child 1 teacher 2 person required leave room intuition undoubted pragmatic element cases teacher supposed authority child therefore 1 causes hesitation immediately evokes normal situation teacher made request child child leave room case 2 immediately evokes picture child made request teacher teacher leave room given presupposed authority relationship intuition says hold kids nt except special circumstances look special context classrom game try possible reinterpretation latter remember form child asked leave room teacher implicit admit 2 possible way saying teacher explicit however agree wayne lawrence immediate intrepretation person asked expected leave interpretation function syntax look syntactically generated interpretation pragmatic constraints force reconsider report distinctly twostage process second triggered problems result first case however john asked mary leave nothing given corresponding authority relationship would make unlikely john expects mary leave case afraid syntax ted ted harding nessie mcc ac uk