Cross-serial dependencies in Dutch: testing the influence of NP type on processing load
| Autor: | Edith Kaan, Nada Vasić |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Male Phrase Adolescent Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Verb Linguistics Syntax Sentence processing Noun phrase Cross-serial dependencies Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Speech Perception Proper noun Humans Female Psychology Sentence Language |
| Zdroj: | Memorycognition. 32(2) |
| ISSN: | 0090-502X |
| Popis: | We tested the cross-linguistic generalizability of three models of sentence processing complexity— Lewis (1996), Gibson (1998, 2000), and Gordon (Gordon, Hendrick, & Johnson, 2001; Gordon, Hendrick, & Levine, 2002)—by investigating the on-line processing of cross-serial dependencies in Dutch. The number of subject-verb relations in a clause was manipulated, as well as type of noun phrase (indexical pronouns vs. proper names or full definite NPs). Several of our findings diverged from Gibson’s model: Processing difficulty at the verbs was not affected by the use of proper names versus first- and second-person pronouns; an increase at the first verb was seen for full NPs versus pronouns in 3-verb constructions, which was predicted by the Gibson model, but is in contrast to Lewis’s model. These findings are best explained within the framework of similarity-based inference models (Gordon et al., 2001; Gordon et al., 2002), according to which the number of similar NPs affects processing difficulty at the point of retrieval, and not specifically their discourse status or syntactic function. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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