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Local Coherence and Preemptive Digging-in Effects in German.

Dario Paape, Shravan Vasishth

Language and Speech

|June 21, 2018

Summary

The study found that initial processing of a sentence can reduce later reading difficulties caused by locally plausible but globally incorrect structures. This supports the SOPARSE model of sentence comprehension.

Area of Science:

Psycholinguistics
Computational Linguistics
Cognitive Science

Background:

Sentence processing models predict effects like local coherence and digging-in.
Local coherence involves temporarily favoring incorrect interpretations.
Digging-in describes the difficulty of revising entrenched interpretations.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the interaction between local coherence and digging-in effects in sentence processing.
To test predictions of the SOPARSE model regarding these interactive effects.

Main Methods:

A self-paced reading study was conducted using German sentences designed to elicit both local coherence and digging-in effects.
Processing times were measured to identify reading difficulties.

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The processing difficulty associated with local coherence effects was reduced when the globally correct parse was allowed to become entrenched first.
This finding supports the SOPARSE model's assumptions about the interplay of these effects.

Conclusions:

The findings suggest that the entrenchment of a correct interpretation can mitigate the distracting influence of locally plausible but globally incorrect sentence structures.
This provides empirical support for the predictive capabilities of the SOPARSE model in explaining sentence comprehension phenomena.