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Syntactic Prediction in Language Comprehension: Evidence From Either...or
Ist Teil von
Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition, 2006-03, Vol.32 (2), p.425-436
Ort / Verlag
Washington, DC: American Psychological Association
Erscheinungsjahr
2006
Quelle
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Beschreibungen/Notizen
Readers' eye movements were monitored as they read sentences in which two noun phrases or two independent clauses were connected by the word
or
(NP-coordination and S-coordination, respectively). The word
either
could be present or absent earlier in the sentence. When
either
was present, the material immediately following
or
was read more quickly, across both sentence types. In addition, there was evidence that readers misanalyzed the S-coordination structure as an NP-coordination structure only when
either
was absent. The authors interpret the results as indicating that the word
either
enabled readers to predict the arrival of a coordination structure; this predictive activation facilitated processing of this structure when it ultimately arrived, and in the case of S-coordination sentences, enabled readers to avoid the incorrect NP-coordination analysis. The authors argue that these results support parsing theories according to which the parser can build predictable syntactic structure before encountering the corresponding lexical input.