The Predictive Value of Tagalog Voice Morphology in Filler-Gap Dependency Formation.

ABSTRACT: Research has shown that when processing filler-gap dependencies, comprehenders do not wait until they encounter all of the bottom-up information in the input. Instead, they use various types of linguistic information to predictively posit a gap that would allow the dependency to be resolved. They can use syntactic (Traxler and Pickering, 1996), lexical (Trueswell et al., 1994), morphological (Kamide et al., 2003), and prosodic (Nagel et al., 1994) information. Here we examine whether Tagalog comprehenders use the language's voice morphology to guide their incremental interpretations. We hypothesized that voice allows comprehenders to commit to an interpretation upon encountering the verb, since they have information about the event structure at this point in time and by virtue of the voice

SUBMITTER: Pizarro-Guevara JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7174735 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature