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Recency and lexical preferences in Spanish.

E Gibson1, N J Pearlmutter, V Torrens

  • 1Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139, USA. gibson@psyche.mit.edu

Memory & Cognition
|September 10, 1999
PubMed
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Spanish speakers show a recency preference for attaching relative clauses, favoring recently encountered information. This finding supports recent attachment preferences over lexical biases in sentence processing.

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • The attachment preference in sentence processing, specifically for relative clauses, is a key area of psycholinguistic research.
  • Previous studies have yielded conflicting results regarding attachment preferences in Spanish, with Gibson et al. (1996) proposing a recency preference and Cuetos and Mitchell (1988) suggesting otherwise.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the attachment preferences for Spanish relative clauses.
  • To determine whether a recency preference influences attachment site selection.
  • To assess the role of lexical biases in attachment preferences.

Main Methods:

  • An experiment was conducted using Spanish speakers.
  • Stimuli were designed with either two or three potential attachment sites.

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  • Lexical content was kept consistent across conditions, with structural configuration varying between two- and three-site conditions.

    • Main Results:

    • When two attachment sites were present, high attachment was preferred over low attachment.
    • With three attachment sites, a preference emerged for low attachment over high attachment, and high attachment over middle attachment.
    • These results replicate earlier findings and indicate a recency preference.

    Conclusions:

    • Attachment preferences in Spanish are influenced by a preference for recent/low attachment.
    • Lexical biases alone are insufficient to account for observed attachment preferences in Spanish relative clause processing.