Filling the Silence
- In a self-paced reading experiment, we investigated the processing of sluicing constructions (“sluices”) whose antecedent contained a known garden-path structure in German. Results showed decreased processing times for sluices with garden-path antecedents as well as a disadvantage for antecedents with non-canonical word order downstream from the ellipsis site. A post-hoc analysis showed the garden-path advantage also to be present in the region right before the ellipsis site. While no existing account of ellipsis processing explicitly predicted the results, we argue that they are best captured by combining a local antecedent mismatch effect with memory trace reactivation through reanalysis.
Author details: | Dario L. J. F. PaapeORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00027 |
ISSN: | 1664-1078 |
Title of parent work (English): | Frontiers in psychology |
Subtitle (English): | Reactivation, not Reconstruction |
Publisher: | Frontiers Research Foundation |
Place of publishing: | Lausanne |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2016/01/26 |
Publication year: | 2016 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2016/05/12 |
Tag: | German; ellipsis processing; garden-path effect; reconstruction; retrieval; self-paced reading |
Volume: | 7 |
First page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 18 |
Funding institution: | Universität Potsdam, Publikationsfonds |
Funding number: | PA 2016_04 |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Grantor: | Publikationsfonds der Universität Potsdam |
Publishing method: | Open Access |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |
License (German): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
External remark: | Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe ; 285 |