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  - 
TY  - JOUR
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
JF  - PLoS ONE
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.
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  - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198620
SN  - 1932-6203
VL  - 13
IS  - 6
SP  - 1
EP  - 46
PB  - PLOS
CY  - San Francisco
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hameister, Inga
A1  - Nickels, Lyndsey
T1  - The cat in the tree - using picture descriptions to inform our understanding of conceptualisation in aphasia
JF  - Language, cognition and neuroscience
N2  - Conceptualisation is the first step of speech production and describes the process by which we map our thoughts onto spoken language. Recent studies suggest that some people with language impairments have conceptualisation deficits manifested by information selection and sequencing difficulties. In this study, we examined conceptualisation in the complex picture descriptions of individuals with and without aphasia. We analysed the number and the order of main concepts (ideas produced by >= 60% of unimpaired speakers) and non-main concepts (e.g. irrelevant details). Half of the individuals with aphasia showed a reduced number of main concepts that could not be fully accounted for by their language production deficits. Moreover, individuals with aphasia produced both a larger amount of marginally relevant information, as well as having greater variability in the order of main concepts. Both findings provide support for the idea that conceptualisation deficits are a relatively common impairment in people with aphasia.
KW  - Aphasia
KW  - conceptualisation
KW  - discourse
KW  - concept analysis
KW  - macroplanning
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2018.1497801
SN  - 2327-3798
SN  - 2327-3801
VL  - 33
IS  - 10
SP  - 1296
EP  - 1314
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -