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Lexical mediation and context effects in sentence processing.

Matthew J Traxler1, Kristen M Tooley

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of California at Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA. mjtraxler@ucdavis.edu

Brain Research
|November 23, 2006
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Syntactic ambiguity resolution relies on both lexical representations for argument relations and general principles for other structures. This parsing model distinguishes short-term and long-term context effects.

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Linguistics

Background:

  • Syntactic ambiguity resolution is key to understanding how context influences sentence parsing.
  • Debates exist on modularity versus interaction in sentence processing mechanisms.
  • Rapid contextual effects suggest permeable parsing mechanisms, challenging modularity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a parsing model where argument relations use lexical representations, while other structures rely on general principles.
  • To investigate how immediate (short-term) and long-term contextual factors affect sentence parsing.
  • To provide empirical evidence from eye-tracking experiments supporting the proposed parsing account.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing literature on context effects in syntactic disambiguation.

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  • Development of a theoretical account of sentence parsing.
  • Conducting two eye-tracking experiments to observe parser behavior.

    • Main Results:

    • Evidence suggests argument relations are built from lexically stored syntactic representations.
    • Other structural decisions appear governed by broader processing principles.
    • Parser reactions to short-term and long-term contextual factors were analyzed.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed model distinguishes the role of lexical knowledge and general principles in parsing.
    • Contextual information impacts syntactic ambiguity resolution differently based on the type of structural decision.
    • Eye-tracking data supports the differential processing of argument relations versus other syntactic structures.