Subsequent to Suppression: Downstream Comprehension Consequences of Noun/Verb Ambiguity in Natural Reading

Autor/inn/en	Stites, Mallory C.; Federmeier, Kara D.
Titel	Subsequent to Suppression: Downstream Comprehension Consequences of Noun/Verb Ambiguity in Natural Reading
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41 (2015) 5, S.1497-1515 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/xlm0000119
Schlagwörter	Reading Comprehension; Nouns; Verbs; Ambiguity (Semantics); Correlation; Language Processing; Syntax; Phrase Structure; Eye Movements; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Diagnostic Tests; Undergraduate Students; Reading Rate; Reading Tests; Statistical Analysis; Illinois + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Leseverstehen; Korrelation; Sprachverarbeitung; Phrasenstruktur; Augenbewegung; Diagnostic test; Diagnostischer Test; Reading readiness; Reading speed; Lesegeschwindigkeit; Lesetest; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	We used eye tracking to investigate the downstream processing consequences of encountering noun/verb (NV) homographs (i.e., park) in semantically neutral but syntactically constraining contexts. Target words were followed by a prepositional phrase containing a noun that was plausible for only 1 meaning of the homograph. Replicating previous work, we found increased first fixation durations on NV homographs compared with unambiguous words, which persisted into the next sentence region. At the downstream noun, we found plausibility effects following ambiguous words that were correlated with the size of a reader's first fixation effect, suggesting that this effect reflects the recruitment of processing resources necessary to suppress the homograph's context-inappropriate meaning. Using these same stimuli, Lee and Federmeier (2012) found a sustained frontal negativity to the NV homographs, and, on the downstream noun, found a plausibility effect that was also positively correlated with the size of a reader's ambiguity effect. Together, these findings suggest that when only syntactic constraints are available, meaning selection recruits inhibitory mechanisms that can be measured in both first fixation slowdown and event-related potential ambiguity effects. (As Provided).
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