Stepping back to look ahead: Neuter encapsulation and referent extension in counter-argumentative and causal relations in Spanish
| Autor: | Adriana Dibo da Cruz, Giovanni Parodi, Gina Burdiles, Cristóbal Julio, Laura Nadal |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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eye-tracking
050101 languages & linguistics Linguistics and Language Argumentative Pronoun 05 social sciences Experimental and Cognitive Psychology counter-argumentative relation Referent 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Linguistics Comprehension neuter pronoun ello Encapsulation (computer programming) Mental representation Eye tracking encapsulation 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Settore L-LIN/07 - Lingua e Traduzione - Lingua Spagnola Look-ahead Psychology cause-effect relation |
| Popis: | In discourse comprehension, if all goes well, people tend to create a rich and coherent mental representation of the events described in the text. To do so, referential and relational coherence must be established in order to construct a connected discourse. The objective of this follow-up eye-tracking study (N = 72) is to explore the existence of an interaction effect between two factors: (a) the extension of the referent (short and long antecedent), and (b) the semantic relation (counter-argumentativea pesar de, and causalpor), when processing the neuter pronounelloin texts written in Spanish. No previous study has systematically compared the on-line processing of texts in which different extensions of the encapsulated anaphoric antecedent by the neuter pronounello(‘this’ or ‘it’ in English) are presented in diverse marked semantic relations (causal and counter-argumentative). Based on three eye-tracking measures, we found distinctive patterns of reading behavior when anaphoric neuter reference and semantic relations must be processed conjointly in order to construct a coherent mental representation. The main findings show that reading longer and more complex antecedents encapsulated by the neutral pronounselloexerts more cognitive effort in late processing (Look Back measure), particularly when simultaneously and in the same discourse construction there is an explicitly marked counter-argumentative semantic relation. Implications for theories of referential and relational coherence are discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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