Grammatical predictions reveal influences of semantic attraction in online sentence comprehension: evidence from speeded forced-choice sentence continuations
| Autor: | Les Sikos, Albert Kim, Cecily Jill Duffield |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Atomic sentence Linguistics and Language Interpretation (logic) Computer science Cognitive Neuroscience 05 social sciences Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Semantics Syntax 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Sentence processing Linguistics 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Semantic role labeling 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Sentence |
| Zdroj: | Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 31:1055-1073 |
| ISSN: | 2327-3801 2327-3798 |
| Popis: | Research in language processing has established that semantic information can influence (a) online sentence interpretation when syntactic cues are indeterminate, and (b) offline judgments of syntactically unambiguous but semantically anomalous sentences. The question of whether semantic information can influence online sentence interpretation when semantic cues oppose unambiguous syntax remains unanswered. We investigate this question using two speeded forced-choice sentence continuation studies. Under time constraints, participants continued sentence fragments such as “The hearty meal was devouring … ” (Attraction Violation) and “The sealed envelope was devouring … ” (No-Attraction Violation) with either BY or THE. Although participants had an overall preference to continue all fragments with THE, they were more likely to choose BY in Attraction Violation than No-Attraction Violation sentences. When choosing THE, participants took longer in the Attraction Violation condition. These results sugges... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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