TY  - GEN
A1  - Paape, Dario L. J. F.
A1  - Nicenboim, Bruno
A1  - Vasishth, Shravan
T1  - Does antecedent complexity affect ellipsis processing?
BT  - An empirical investigation
N2  - In two self-paced reading experiments, we investigated the effect of changes in antecedent complexity on processing times for ellipsis. Pointer- or “sharing”-based approaches to ellipsis processing (Frazier & Clifton 2001, 2005; Martin & McElree 2008) predict no effect of antecedent complexity on reading times at the ellipsis site while other accounts predict increased antecedent complexity to either slow down processing (Murphy 1985) or to speed it up (Hofmeister 2011). Experiment 1 manipulated antecedent complexity and elision, yielding evidence against a speedup at the ellipsis site and in favor of a null effect. In order to investigate possible superficial processing on part of participants, Experiment 2 manipulated the amount of attention required to correctly respond to end-of-sentence comprehension probes, yielding evidence against a complexity-induced slowdown at the ellipsis site. Overall, our results are compatible with pointer-based approaches while casting doubt on the notion that changes antecedent complexity lead to measurable differences in ellipsis processing speed.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 350 
KW  - antecedent complexity
KW  - ellipsis processing
KW  - memory pointer
KW  - self-paced reading
KW  - Bayes factor
Y1  - 2017
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-403373
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Paape, Dario L. J. F.
A1  - Nicenboim, Bruno
A1  - Vasishth, Shravan
T1  - Does antecedent complexity affect ellipsis processing?
BT  - An empirical investigation
JF  - Glossa : a journal of general linguistics
N2  - In two self-paced reading experiments, we investigated the effect of changes in antecedent complexity on processing times for ellipsis. Pointer- or “sharing”-based approaches to ellipsis processing (Frazier & Clifton 2001, 2005; Martin & McElree 2008) predict no effect of antecedent complexity on reading times at the ellipsis site while other accounts predict increased antecedent complexity to either slow down processing (Murphy 1985) or to speed it up (Hofmeister 2011). Experiment 1 manipulated antecedent complexity and elision, yielding evidence against a speedup at the ellipsis site and in favor of a null effect. In order to investigate possible superficial processing on part of participants, Experiment 2 manipulated the amount of attention required to correctly respond to end-of-sentence comprehension probes, yielding evidence against a complexity-induced slowdown at the ellipsis site. Overall, our results are compatible with pointer-based approaches while casting doubt on the notion that changes antecedent complexity lead to measurable differences in ellipsis processing speed.
KW  - antecedent complexity
KW  - ellipsis processing
KW  - memory pointer
KW  - self-paced reading
KW  - Bayes factor
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.290
SN  - 2397-1835
VL  - 2
IS  - 1
SP  - 1
EP  - 29
PB  - Ubiquity Press
CY  - London
ER  -