Local Coherence and Preemptive Digging-in Effects in German
- 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.
| Author details: | Dario Paape, Shravan VasishthORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830915608410 |
| ISSN: | 0023-8309 |
| ISSN: | 1756-6053 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Language and speech |
| Publisher: | Sage Publ. |
| Place of publishing: | London |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2016 |
| Publication year: | 2016 |
| Release date: | 2020/03/22 |
| Tag: | German; Local coherence; SOPARSE; digging-in effects; self-paced reading; sentence processing |
| Volume: | 59 |
| Number of pages: | 17 |
| First page: | 387 |
| Last Page: | 403 |
| Funding institution: | University of Potsdam |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Exzellenzbereich Kognitionswissenschaften |
