TY  - JOUR
A1  - Paape, Dario
A1  - Vasishth, Shravan
T1  - Local Coherence and Preemptive Digging-in Effects in German
JF  - Language and speech
N2  - SOPARSE predicts so-called local coherence effects: locally plausible but globally impossible parses of substrings can exert a distracting influence during sentence processing. Additionally, it predicts digging-in effects: the longer the parser stays committed to a particular analysis, the harder it becomes to inhibit that analysis. We investigated the interaction of these two predictions using German sentences. Results from a self-paced reading study show that the processing difficulty caused by a local coherence can be reduced by first allowing the globally correct parse to become entrenched, which supports SOPARSE’s assumptions.
KW  - Local coherence
KW  - digging-in effects
KW  - self-paced reading
KW  - SOPARSE
KW  - sentence processing
KW  - German
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830915608410
SN  - 0023-8309
SN  - 1756-6053
VL  - 59
SP  - 387
EP  - 403
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - London
ER  -