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  • Computational Linguistics
  • Cognitive Science

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  • Sentence processing models often debate the interplay between rapid, intuitive (heuristic) and deliberate, rule-based (algorithmic) mechanisms.
  • Quantifier scope ambiguity presents a challenge for understanding how humans resolve linguistic structures.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the distinct roles and temporal order of heuristic and algorithmic processing in sentence comprehension.
  • To examine how shallow versus deep processing strategies affect the interpretation of sentences with quantifier scope ambiguity.

Main Methods:

  • Three self-paced reading experiments using two-sentence discourses with ambiguous quantifier scope.
  • Experiment 1: Assessed shallow processing of ambiguous sentences.
  • Experiments 2 & 3: Introduced comprehension questions to elicit deeper processing, varying lexical-pragmatic biases.

Main Results:

  • Experiment 1 showed shallow processing of ambiguous sentences.
  • Experiments 2 & 3 revealed initial lexical-pragmatic interpretation followed by algorithmic scope resolution when deeper processing was prompted.
  • Processing patterns remained consistent across different lexical-pragmatic biases.

Conclusions:

  • Language processing can be superficial, relying on heuristics initially.
  • Algorithmic, structure-sensitive processing is engaged only when deeper comprehension is required.
  • Findings inform models of sentence processing and the resolution of linguistic ambiguity.