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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Linguistic processing
  • Australian languages

Background:

  • Language processing is generally incremental, but evidence is limited to few languages.
  • Polysynthetic languages, like Murrinhpatha, pose unique challenges to incremental processing models.
  • Understanding Murrinhpatha processing can reveal universal or language-specific aspects of language comprehension.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate incremental language processing in Murrinhpatha, a polysynthetic Australian language.
  • To determine if Murrinhpatha speakers make predictions during verb processing, similar to speakers of other languages.
  • To explore how morphophonological overlap influences prediction in polysynthetic languages.

Main Methods:

  • A visual world eyetracking experiment was conducted with 40 native Murrinhpatha speakers.
  • Participants viewed complex scenes while listening to verbs describing one scene.
  • Verb stimuli were designed with varying degrees of overlap (onset or rhyme) with competitor scene descriptions.

Main Results:

  • Murrinhpatha speakers demonstrated incremental predictive processing, despite full verb meaning emerging late.
  • Predictive patterns differed significantly across onset and rhyme overlap conditions.
  • Processing predictions were influenced by bound morphemes within the verb, not discrete words.

Conclusions:

  • Language processing in polysynthetic languages like Murrinhpatha is rapid and incremental.
  • Speakers of polysynthetic languages utilize bound morpheme information for predictive parsing.
  • Findings challenge existing models of incremental processing, highlighting the role of morphological structure.