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Processing coordinate structures.

L Frazier1, A Munn, C Clifton

  • 1Department of Linguistics, South College, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003-7130, USA.

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
|August 23, 2000
PubMed
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Syntactic coordination of unlike categories is grammatical, though like-category coordination is processed faster. Parallelism in conjuncts aids processing, regardless of grammatical regulation.

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Grammatical theories often assume coordination requires syntactically similar categories.
  • Previous research has explored the acceptability and processing of coordinated structures.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether the syntactic like-category restriction in coordination is truly grammatical.
  • To examine the processing differences between coordinating like and unlike categories.
  • To determine the role and scope of parallelism in the processing of coordinated structures.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted four reading time studies to gather empirical data.
  • Presented participants with sentences involving coordination of like and unlike categories.

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  • Manipulated parallelism within conjuncts and compared processing times.

    • Main Results:

    • Coordination of unlike categories is as acceptable as like-category coordination, challenging the grammatical restriction.
    • Syntactically like-category coordination is processed faster than unlike-category coordination.
    • Parallelism of conjuncts (both categorical and structural) facilitates processing.
    • Parallelism effects were limited to conjuncts, not observed in subject-object structures.

    Conclusions:

    • The syntactic like-category restriction in coordination is not a strict grammatical rule.
    • Processing efficiency in coordination is influenced by category similarity and parallelism.
    • Parallelism primarily impacts the processing of conjuncts within coordinate structures.