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  • Cognitive Science
  • Linguistics

Background:

  • Syntactic dependency formation in comprehension involves memory retrieval, which can cause interference errors like attraction.
  • It is debated whether this interference is part of normal processing or a repair mechanism for failed predictions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To test the
  • Error-driven Retrieval
  • hypothesis regarding syntactic dependency formation.

Main Methods:

  • Two reading time experiments and one offline interpretation experiment were conducted.
  • The study examined the interaction between reflexive anaphor attraction and their predictability.

Main Results:

  • The predictability of a reflexive dependency did not influence its susceptibility to interference effects during comprehension.
  • Findings indicate that attraction is not solely triggered by prediction errors.

Conclusions:

  • Syntactic attraction appears to be part of routine retrieval processes in language comprehension.
  • The insensitivity of reflexives to distractors likely involves mechanisms beyond error-driven repair.