Lingering Effects of Disfluent Material on Comprehension of Garden Path Sentences

Autor/inn/en	Lau, Ellen F.; Ferreira, Fernanda
Titel	Lingering Effects of Disfluent Material on Comprehension of Garden Path Sentences
Quelle	In: Language and Cognitive Processes, 20 (2005) 5, S.633-666 (34 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0169-0965
Schlagwörter	Verbs; Grammar; Figurative Language; Sentence Structure; Language Processing; Structural Analysis (Linguistics); Language Fluency; Models + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Grammatik; Satzbau; Satzstruktur; Sprachverarbeitung; Structural analysis; Strukturanalyse; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Analogiemodell
Abstract	In two experiments, we tested for lingering effects of "verb replacement" disfluencies on the processing of garden path sentences that exhibit the main verb/reduced relative (MV/RR) ambiguity. Participants heard sentences with revisions like "The little girl chosen, uh, selected for the role celebrated with her parents and friends". We found that the syntactic ambiguity associated with the reparandum verb involved in the disfluency (here "chosen") had an influence on later parsing: Garden path sentences that included such revisions were more likely to be judged grammatical if the reparandum verb was structurally unambiguous. Conversely, ambiguous non-garden path sentences were more likely to be judged un grammatical if the structurally unambiguous disfluency verb was inconsistent with the final reading. Results support a model of disfluency processing in which the syntactic frame associated with the replacement verb "overlays" the previous verb's structure rather than actively deleting the already-built tree. (Author).
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