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Lyn Frazier¹, Charles Clifton

¹University of Massachusetts.

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|August 10, 2006

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Syntactic parallelism, not just discourse coherence, influences how people process verb phrase ellipsis (VP-ellipsis). This study challenges existing theories on VP-ellipsis resolution and its reliance on coherence relations.

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Linguistics
Psycholinguistics
Computational Linguistics

Background:

Verb phrase ellipsis (VP-ellipsis) typically requires a matching syntactic antecedent.
Existing theories, like Kehler's coherence theory, propose syntactic antecedents are only necessary for specific discourse relations (e.g., resemblance), not others (e.g., cause-effect).
Previous research often relied on corpus data, lacking minimal pairs to rigorously test these theories.

Purpose of the Study:

To experimentally test Kehler's coherence theory of VP-ellipsis.
To investigate the role of syntactic parallelism versus discourse coherence in VP-ellipsis resolution.
To determine if parallelism influences readings that should theoretically require strict syntactic antecedents.

Main Methods:

Conducted five experiments using carefully constructed minimal pair materials.
Presented participants with sentences designed to isolate the effects of syntactic parallelism and discourse coherence.
Analyzed participant responses to determine preferences for different types of antecedents and readings.

Main Results:

Parallelism was preferred across all tested discourse coherence relations, not exclusively for resemblance as predicted by Kehler's theory.
Strict identity readings were influenced by parallelism, even when discourse coherence was held constant.
The findings challenge the causal role of discourse coherence relations in the processing of VP-ellipsis.

Conclusions:

The empirical basis for coherence theory in VP-ellipsis is questioned.
Syntactic parallelism appears to play a more significant and general role in VP-ellipsis processing than previously proposed.
Further research is needed to understand the interplay between syntactic and semantic factors in ellipsis resolution.