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Real-time processing implications of enriched composition at the syntax-semantics interface.

M M Piñango1, E Zurif, R Jackendoff

  • 1Brandeis University, Waltham, M.A., USA.

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
|June 25, 1999
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This study investigated aspectual coercion, a complex semantic process. Results show that parsing sentences requiring this special computation is indeed more computationally costly in real-time processing.

Area of Science:

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Aspectual coercion is a semantic process where meaning is derived beyond simple lexical and syntactic combination.
  • Understanding the cognitive load of such processes is crucial for models of language comprehension.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the real-time computational cost associated with aspectual coercion.
  • To compare the processing cost of sentences requiring aspectual coercion versus syntactically transparent sentences.

Main Methods:

  • An experiment was designed to measure parsing difficulty.
  • Participants processed sentences that either required aspectual coercion or could be interpreted via syntactic composition alone.
  • Computational cost was assessed by analyzing processing time and/or cognitive load indicators.

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Main Results:

  • The parsing of sentences necessitating aspectual coercion was found to be significantly more computationally costly.
  • This finding supports the hypothesis that aspectual coercion imposes an additional processing burden.
  • Results align with predictions of increased cognitive demand for complex semantic operations.

Conclusions:

  • Aspectual coercion represents a distinct and computationally intensive semantic operation during language processing.
  • The study provides empirical evidence for the real-time consequences of complex semantic computations.
  • Findings contribute to understanding the cognitive architecture underlying natural language understanding.