Modularity in locating Wh-gaps
| Autor: | Jane Grimshaw, Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez, Edgar Zurif, Gregory Hickok |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
| Předmět: |
Linguistics and Language
Parsing Phrase business.industry Object (grammar) Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Verb computer.software_genre Syntax Language and Linguistics Psycholinguistics Linguistics Artificial intelligence Psychology business computer Priming (psychology) General Psychology Sentence Natural language processing |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 21:545-561 |
| ISSN: | 1573-6555 0090-6905 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/bf01067530 |
| Popis: | In this paper we report our finding that the parsing routine responsible for locating the deep-structure position of a wh-phrase operates independently of semantic/pragmatic knowledge, suggesting a modular organization of the human sentence processor. Specifically, wh-phrases that were semantically implausible as a direct object of the matrix verb were nonetheless reactivated in that position. Further, reactivation of the wh-phrase was observed despite the fact that the matrix verbs were three-place predicates (e.g.,remind) — a class of verbs which, some experiments suggest, allow interactive effects (e.g., Tanenhaus, Boland, Garnsey, & Carlson, 1989). We argue that this disparity in findings is due to the difference between the cross-modal lexical priming (CMLP) task used in the present study, and the tasks used by Tanenhaus et al. |
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