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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Computational Linguistics

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  • Cue-based retrieval theories predict inhibitory and facilitatory interference in sentence processing.
  • Previous studies claimed reflexives are an exception, showing no facilitatory interference.
  • These claims were based on underpowered studies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate facilitatory and inhibitory interference effects in reflexives using a large-sample experiment.
  • To test the generalizability of cue-based retrieval models to reflexive processing.
  • To re-evaluate the claim that reflexives exhibit no facilitatory interference.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted a large-sample experiment on sentence processing.
  • Investigated both inhibitory and facilitatory interference effects.
  • Performed a quantitative evaluation of a cue-based retrieval model.

Main Results:

  • Found significant facilitatory interference effects in reflexives, contrary to previous findings.
  • Demonstrated that reflexives do not represent an exception to facilitatory interference.
  • Provided data and code for quantitative model evaluation.

Conclusions:

  • Reflexives exhibit facilitatory interference, supporting cue-based retrieval theories.
  • The findings challenge previous underpowered studies on reflexive interference.
  • The cue-based retrieval model quantitatively accounts for the observed reflexive data.