Filling the Silence: Reactivation, not Reconstruction

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 ante...

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Published in:Frontiers in psychology 2016, Vol.7, p.27-27
Main Author: Paape, Dario L J F
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
ellipsis processing
garden-path effect
German
Psychology
reconstruction
retrieval
self-paced reading
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1664-1078
1664-1078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00027