Compensating for Processing Difficulty in Discourse: Effect of Parallelism in Contrastive Relations

Autor/inn/en	Crible, Ludivine; Pickering, Martin J.
Titel	Compensating for Processing Difficulty in Discourse: Effect of Parallelism in Contrastive Relations
Quelle	In: Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 57 (2020) 10, S.862-879 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Crible, Ludivine)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0163-853X
DOI	10.1080/0163853X.2020.1813493
Schlagwörter	Language Processing; Difficulty Level; Form Classes (Languages); Verbs; Phrase Structure; Connected Discourse; Task Analysis; Reading Processes; Ambiguity (Semantics); Discourse Analysis; Native Speakers; English; Sentences; Test Items; Item Analysis; Reading Comprehension; Reading Rate + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachverarbeitung; Schwierigkeitsgrad; Analytischer Sprachbau; Phrasenstruktur; Aufgabenanalyse; Leseprozess; Diskursanalyse; Muttersprachler; English language; Englisch; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Test content; Testaufgabe; Itemanalyse; Leseverstehen; Reading readiness; Reading speed; Lesegeschwindigkeit
Abstract	This study aims to establish whether the processing of different connectives (e.g., "and," "but") and different coherence relations (addition, contrast) can be modulated by a structural feature of the connected segments--namely, parallelism. While "but" is mainly used to contrast two expressions, "and" occurs in many different relations and has been shown to come with a processing cost. We report three self-paced reading experiments in which we manipulate whether the connected segments share a common verb phrase. Such parallel constructions frequently occur in contrastive relations, although they are typically treated as additive in comprehension research. We expect that parallelism will compensate for the cognitive complexity of contrast and for the ambiguity of "and" by further signaling the coherence relation. Our results indicate that parallelism speeds up processing and provides further evidence for priming in comprehension. However, parallelism interacted with connective ambiguity in an overt disambiguation task (Experiment 3) but not in a more natural reading task (Experiment 2). We argue that the processing of contrast remains shallow unless disambiguation is explicitly required. (As Provided).
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