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...

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Published in:Language and speech 2016-09, Vol.59 (3), p.387-403
Main Authors: Paape, Dario, Vasishth, Shravan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Coherence
Competition
Fiction
German language
Grammar
Institutionalized Persons
Language Processing
Nouns
Phrase Structure
Presuppositions
Reading
Reading Research
Roles
Science fiction & fantasy
Semantics
Sentences
Syntactic processing
Syntax
Verbs
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0023-8309
1756-6053
DOI:10.1177/0023830915608410