The actress was on the balcony, after all: Eye-tracking locality and PR-availability effects in Spanish
| Autor: | José A. Hinojosa, Miriam Aguilar, Josep Demestre, José M. Gavilán, Pilar Ferré |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Linguistics and Language
Cognitive Neuroscience media_common.quotation_subject Experimental and Cognitive Psychology computer.software_genre 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Factor (programming language) Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Simplicity Eye-Tracking Technology media_common computer.programming_language Language Structure (mathematical logic) Parsing business.industry 05 social sciences Locality Syntactic ambiguity Comprehension Reading Eye tracking Artificial intelligence business Psychology computer 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Natural language processing |
| Zdroj: | Cognition. 211 |
| ISSN: | 1873-7838 |
| Popis: | The relationship between syntactic ambiguity and locality has been a reliable cornerstone in theories of language comprehension with one exception: non-local preferences in object-modifying relative clauses preceded by two potential hosts (DP1 of DP2 RC). We test the offline and online effects of the availability of an alternative structure, the pseudo-relative, on the parsing of relative clauses. It has been claimed that pseudo-relatives are preferred to relative clauses because of their simplicity at the structural, interpretive and pragmatic levels, and act as a confound in the attachment literature (Grillo, 2012; Grillo & Costa, 2014). Our results show that attachment preferences are modulated by the availability of pseudo-relatives in offline and online tests. However, when this factor is controlled, parsing of relative clauses in Spanish is initially ruled by principles of locality, which can eventually be overridden by other factors. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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