Does a walk-through video help the parser down the garden-path? A visually enhanced self-paced reading study in Dutch.

ABSTRACT: The human language processing mechanism assigns a structure to the incoming materials as they unfold. There is evidence that the parser prefers some attachment types over others; however, theories of sentence processing are still in dispute over the stage at which each source of information contributes to the parsing system. The present study aims to identify the nature of initial parsing decisions during sentence processing through manipulating attachment type and verbs' argument structure. To this end, we designed a self-paced reading task using globally ambiguous constructions in Dutch. The structures included double locative prepositional phrases (PPs) where the first PP could attach both to the verb (high attachment) and the noun preceding it (low attachment). To disambiguate the stru

SUBMITTER: Shoghi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9851380 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature