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Verb-specific constraints in sentence processing: Separating effects of lexical preference from garden-paths (1993)
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| Venue: | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition |
| Citations: | 182 - 10 self |
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@ARTICLE{Trueswell93verb-specificconstraints,
author = {John C. Trueswell and Michael K. Tanenhaus and Christopher Kello and John C. Trueswell and Michael K. Tanenhaus},
title = {Verb-specific constraints in sentence processing: Separating effects of lexical preference from garden-paths},
journal = {Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition},
year = {1993},
pages = {528--553}
}
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Abstract
Immediate effects of verb-specific syntactic (subcategorization) information were found in a cross-modal naming experiment, a self-paced reading experiment, and an experiment in which eye movements were monitored. In the reading studies, syntactic misanalysis effects in sentence complements (e.g., "The student forgot the solution was...") occurred at the verb in the complement (e.g., was) for matrix verbs typically used with noun phrase complements but not for verbs typically used with sentence complements. In addition, a complementizer effect for sentencecomplement-biased verbs was not due to syntactic misanalysis but was correlated with how strongly a particular verb prefers to be followed by the complementizer that. The results support models that make immediate use of lexically specific constraints, especially constraint-based models, but are problematic for lexical filtering models. Many aspects of language comprehension take place rapidly, with readers and listeners making commitments to at least partial interpretations soon after receiving linguistic input
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sentence processing lexical preference verb-specific constraint separating effect sentence complement immediate use many aspect language comprehension cross-modal naming experiment eye movement noun phrase complement syntactic misanalysis effect complementizer effect sentencecomplement-biased verb particular verb prefers partial interpretation matrix verb self-paced reading experiment immediate effect result support model constraint-based model linguistic input lexical filtering model specific constraint syntactic misanalysis reading study
