Parsing with Focus Particles in Context: Eye Movements during the Processing of Relative Clause Ambiguities

Autor/inn/en	Filik, Ruth; Paterson, Kevin B.; Liversedge, Simon P.
Titel	Parsing with Focus Particles in Context: Eye Movements during the Processing of Relative Clause Ambiguities
Quelle	In: Journal of Memory and Language, 53 (2005) 4, S.473-495 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0749-596X
DOI	10.1016/j.jml.2005.07.004
Schlagwörter	Sentences; Eye Movements; Language Processing; Sentence Structure + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Augenbewegung; Sprachverarbeitung; Satzbau; Satzstruktur
Abstract	Sedivy (2002) proposed that using "only" and prior referential context to specify contrastive focus can guide the parsing of relative clause ambiguities. We report two studies investigating this hypothesis, using sentences that either temporarily allowed or disallowed a transitive main clause interpretation. Sentence completions demonstrated that "only" and interrogative contexts jointly influenced the frequency of relative clause completions to ambiguous fragments. Eye-tracking demonstrated that conjoint effects of "only" and context influenced initial parsing decisions only when the active transitive analysis was unavailable. The results are consistent with previous observations that the influence of contrastive focus on sentence processing depends on which syntactic analyses are available to the parser (Liversedge, Paterson, & Clayes, 2002; Paterson, Liversedge, & Underwood, 1999). (Author).
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