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.
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| Author details: | Dario L. J. F. PaapeORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-90480 |
| Subtitle (English): | Reactivation, not Reconstruction |
| Publication series (Volume number): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe (285) |
| Publication type: | Postprint |
| Language: | English |
| Publication year: | 2016 |
| Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
| Release date: | 2016/05/12 |
| Tag: | German; ellipsis processing; garden-path effect; reconstruction; retrieval; self-paced reading |
| 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 |
| 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: | Bibliographieeintrag der Originalveröffentlichung/Quelle |
