کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
931860 1474645 2014 22 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The use of control information in dependency formation: An eye-tracking study
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
استفاده از اطلاعات کنترل در شکل گیری وابستگی: یک مطالعه ردیابی چشم
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب شناختی
چکیده انگلیسی


• We investigated how control information interacted with structural ambiguity resolution.
• Experiment 1 examined the processing of optional dependencies with control nouns such as order.
• Experiment 2 examined the processing of obligatory adjunct control dependencies.
• The control information only affected garden path recovery but not initial disambiguation.
• The results suggest that the influence of predictive dependency formation is limited.

Recent research has shown much evidence that sentence comprehension can be extremely predictive. However, we currently know little about the limits of predictive processing. In the two eye-tracking experiments, we examined whether predictive information in dependency formation is inevitably given priority over a well-known structural preference in syntactic ambiguity resolution. Experiment 1 used sentences including control nouns like order (e.g. After Andrew’s order to wash the kids came over to the house). If predictive dependency information is given priority over disambiguation preferences, then readers could immediately interpret the kids as the ones who have been ordered to wash, thus avoiding the garden path at the main verb came. However, garden path effects were found irrespective of control information, although the garden path difficulty was reduced when the lexical control information highlighted the globally correct analysis (as in the above example), relative to when it did not. Experiment 2 replicated these results with adjunct control, where the relevant dependency is obligatory (e.g. After refusing to wash the kids came over to the house). Again, control information did not influence initial disambiguation, but did affect the difficulty of garden path recovery. Overall, the results suggest that there are limitations on the influence of predictive dependency formation on on-line structural disambiguation.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Memory and Language - Volume 73, May 2014, Pages 59–80
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