TY  - GEN
A1  - Paape, Dario L. J. F.
A1  - Hemforth, Barbara
A1  - Vasishth, Shravan
T1  - Processing of ellipsis with garden-path antecedents in French and German
BT  - Evidence from eye tracking
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - In a self-paced reading study on German sluicing, Paape (Paape, 2016) found that reading times were shorter at the ellipsis site when the antecedent was a temporarily ambiguous garden-path structure. As a post-hoc explanation of this finding, Paape assumed that the antecedent’s memory representation was reactivated during syntactic reanalysis, making it easier to retrieve. In two eye tracking experiments, we subjected the reactivation hypothesis to further empirical scrutiny. Experiment 1, carried out in French, showed no evidence in favor in the reactivation hypothesis. Instead, results for one out of the three types of garden-path sentences that were tested suggest that subjects sometimes failed to resolve the temporary ambiguity in the antecedent clause, and subsequently failed to resolve the ellipsis. The results of Experiment 2, a conceptual replication of Paape’s (Paape, 2016) original study carried out in German, are compatible with the reactivation hypothesis, but leave open the possibility that the observed speedup for ambiguous antecedents may be due to occasional retrievals of an incorrect structure.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 452 
KW  - verb-phrase ellipsis
KW  - lingering misinterpretation
KW  - sentence comprehension
KW  - memory
KW  - ambiguities
KW  - activation
KW  - hypothesis
KW  - discourse
KW  - clauses
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-414062
IS  - 452
ER  -