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Strategies for processing unbounded dependencies: lexical information and verb-argument assignment.

M J Pickering1, M J Traxler

  • 1Human Communication Research Centre, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. martin.pickering@ed.ac.uk

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition
|November 21, 2001
PubMed
Summary

Readers processing sentences with unclear argument roles initially favor direct objects. Simultaneously, they consider potential clausal analyses, impacting sentence parsing strategies.

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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Linguistics

Background:

  • Understanding how readers resolve ambiguity in sentence processing is crucial for cognitive science.
  • Verb-argument relations and subcategorization ambiguity are key areas in psycholinguistics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how readers form unbounded dependencies when verb-argument roles are initially unclear.
  • To examine the interplay between direct object assignment and clausal analysis during sentence comprehension.

Main Methods:

  • A self-paced reading experiment was conducted to measure reading times.
  • An eye-tracking experiment was used to analyze fixation patterns and regressions.

Main Results:

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  • Readers initially treated the ambiguous filler as the verb's direct object.
  • Evidence suggests simultaneous consideration of a clausal analysis alongside the direct object assignment.

    • Conclusions:

    • The findings provide insights into parsing strategies when faced with specific types of ambiguity.
    • Results contribute to current theoretical accounts of sentence processing and unbounded dependencies.