Argument-head distance and processing complexity: Explaining both locality and antilocality effects
- Although proximity between arguments and verbs (locality) is a relatively robust determinant of sentence-processing difficulty (Hawkins 1998, 2001, Gibson 2000), increasing argument-verb distance can also facilitate processing (Konieczny 2000). We present two self-paced reading (SPR) experiments involving Hindi that provide further evidence of antilocality, and a third SPR experiment which suggests that similarity-based interference can attenuate this distance-based facilitation. A unified explanation of interference, locality, and antilocality effects is proposed via an independently motivated theory of activation decay and retrieval interference (Anderson et al. 2004).*
Author details: | Shravan VasishthORCiDGND, Richard L. Lewis |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2006.0236 |
ISSN: | 0097-8507 |
Title of parent work (English): | Language : journal of the Linguistic Society of America |
Publisher: | Linguistic Society of America |
Place of publishing: | Washington |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2006/01/14 |
Publication year: | 2006 |
Release date: | 2020/04/17 |
Volume: | 82 |
Issue: | 4 |
Number of pages: | 28 |
First page: | 767 |
Last Page: | 794 |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
Peer review: | Referiert |