| Presentation | 2011-08-06 An anticipatory effect of syntactic priming in processing of structurally ambiguous sentences Manabu ARAI, Chie NAKAMURA, Reiko MAZUKA, |
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| Abstract(in English) | Several previous studies on language comprehension found that processing difficulty due to structural ambiguity can be reduced by a phenomenon of structural priming (e.g., Traxler & Pickering, 2005). What is still not clear is whether priming only helps comprehenders to recover from an initial misanalysis or it also helps to make a prediction of a correct analysis before encountering disambiguating information. We conducted two eye-tracking visual world experiments to investigate this issue with structurally ambiguous relative clause sentences such as Roujin-ga shinbun-wo yondeiru bijinesuman-ni hanashikaketa ('The old man talked to the businessman who was reading the newspaper'). The results showed that while listening to the structurally ambiguous part of a sentence, participants made a prediction of the same sentence structure as a prime structure. Importantly, the effect was observed both when the verb was repeated between prime and target and when it was not. Our study demonstrated that a past experience to a sentence structure not only influences listeners on the recovery from misanalysis but also on the probabilities of upcoming dispreferred structures. |
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| Keyword(in English) | garden-path sentences / sentence processing / syntactic priming / eye-movements |
| Paper # | TL2011-23 |
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| Conference Date | 2011/7/29(1days) |
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| Language | ENG |
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| Title (in English) | An anticipatory effect of syntactic priming in processing of structurally ambiguous sentences |
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| Keyword(1) | garden-path sentences |
| Keyword(2) | sentence processing |
| Keyword(3) | syntactic priming |
| Keyword(4) | eye-movements |
| 1st Author's Name | Manabu ARAI |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | The University of Tokyo:JSPS:RIKEN() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Chie NAKAMURA |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Keio University:JSPS:RIKEN |
| 3rd Author's Name | Reiko MAZUKA |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | RIKEN:Duke University |
| Date | 2011-08-06 |
| Paper # | TL2011-23 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.111 |
| Number (no) | 170 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 4 |
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