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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Neuroscience

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  • Previous research suggests linguistic processing resources may be domain-general.
  • Interpreting interference effects is challenging due to linguistic processing complexity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if linguistic structural processing interferes with other structural processing tasks.
  • To determine if interference is based on structural processing resources.

Main Methods:

  • Participants read sentences with "garden path" or "out-of-context" violations while processing pitch sequences.
  • Pitch sequences contained cluster shifts, sometimes aligned with sentence anomalies.
  • A two-tone recognition task measured processing of pitch sequence structural boundaries.

Main Results:

  • "Garden path" sentences led to shallower processing of pitch sequence structural boundaries.
  • No interference was observed with "out-of-context" violations.
  • Interference effects were distinct from general pitch recognition.

Conclusions:

  • Evidence supports the hypothesis of overlapping structural processing resources between language and other domains.
  • Linguistic structural processing can interfere with the processing of other structural information, particularly when reintegration is required.