The Time Course of Plausibility Effects on Eye Movements in Reading: Evidence from Noun-Noun Compounds

Autor/inn/en	Staub, Adrian; Rayner, Keith; Pollatsek, Alexander; Hyona, Jukka; Majewski, Helen
Titel	The Time Course of Plausibility Effects on Eye Movements in Reading: Evidence from Noun-Noun Compounds
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33 (2007) 6, S.1162-1169 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
Schlagwörter	Sentences; Eye Movements; Nouns; Experiments; Reading Processes; Reading Skills + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Augenbewegung; Erprobung; Leseprozess; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit
Abstract	Readers' eye movements were monitored as they read sentences containing noun-noun compounds that varied in frequency (e.g., elevator mechanic, mountain lion). The left constituent of the compound was either plausible or implausible as a head noun at the point at which it appeared, whereas the compound as a whole was always plausible. When the head noun analysis of the left constituent was implausible, reading times on this word were inflated, beginning with the first fixation. This finding is consistent with previous demonstrations of very rapid effects of plausibility on eye movements. Compound frequency did not modulate the plausibility effect, and all disruption was resolved by the time readers' eyes moved to the next word. These findings suggest (contra Kennison, 2005) that the parser initially analyzes a singular noun as a head instead of a modifier. In addition, the findings confirm that the very rapid effect of plausibility on eye movements is not due to strategic factors, because in the present experiment, unlike in previous demonstrations, this effect appeared in sentences that were globally plausible. (Author).
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