The Interaction Of Contextual And Syntactic Information In The Processing Of Turkish Anaphors
| Autor: | Gračanin-Yuksek, Martina, Lago, Sol, Şafak, Duygu, Demir, Orhan, Kırkıcı, Bilal |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Linguistics and Language Adolescent Turkey Turkish Computer science Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Context (language use) Social and Behavioral Sciences computer.software_genre Referent 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Sentence processing Psycholinguistics 03 medical and health sciences Judgment Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences General Psychology Language Pronoun Coreference business.industry 05 social sciences Linguistics Syntax language.human_language Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics Reading FOS: Languages and literature language Female Artificial intelligence business Comprehension computer 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Natural language processing |
| Popis: | In contrast with languages where anaphors can be classified into pronouns and reflexives, Turkish has a tripartite system that consists of the anaphors "o", "kendi", and "kendisi". The syntactic literature on these anaphors has proposed that whereas "o" behaves like a pronoun and "kendi" behaves like a reflexive, "kendisi" has a more flexible behavior and it can function as both a pronoun and a reflexive. Using acceptability judgments and a self-paced reading task, we examined how Turkish anaphors are processed in isolated sentences and within larger discourse contexts. We manipulated contextual information by creating passages where the context favored a local, long-distance or extra-sentential referent prior to the appearance of the anaphor. We measured the effect of the context on participants' reading times and their end-of-trial coreference assignments. Our results suggest that contextual information affects the interpretive possibilities associated with an anaphor, but that the influence of context depends on the degree to which the anaphor is syntactically constrained. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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