The Effect of Nonadopted Analyses on Sentence Processing

Autor/inn/en	Cai, Zhenguang G.; Sturt, Patrick; Pickering, Martin J.
Titel	The Effect of Nonadopted Analyses on Sentence Processing
Quelle	In: Language and Cognitive Processes, 27 (2012) 9, S.1286-1311 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0169-0965
DOI	10.1080/01690965.2011.599657
Schlagwörter	Language Processing; Sentences; Comprehension; Ambiguity (Semantics); Form Classes (Languages); Phrase Structure; Content Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachverarbeitung; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Verstehen; Verständnis; Analytischer Sprachbau; Phrasenstruktur; Inhaltsanalyse
Abstract	Are comprehenders affected by an alternative analysis that they do not adopt (a nonadopted analysis) in case of syntactic ambiguity? If the processor only considers and maintains the preferred analysis at a given time, an alternative analysis is then not considered and will hence not affect processing. In two experiments, we examined the processing of the ambiguity in English object-cleft sentences such as "Because it was John that Ralph threatened the neighbour recorded their conversation", where the NP "the neighbour" is temporally ambiguous between a preferred subject analysis (subject of the main clause) and an object analysis (object of the preceding verb threatened). We found that though the object analysis was not adopted and maintained by the processor, it disrupted sentence processing. Such an effect was mediated by plausibility: It disappeared when the object analysis had an implausible interpretation. Overall, the results suggest that people consider an alternative analysis even when they do not maintain it. (Contains 4 tables and 2 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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