Description

This study investigated the influences of prior discourse context and cumulative syntactic priming on readers’ predictions for verb subcategorizations. An additional aim was to determine whether cumulative syntactic priming has the same degree of influence following coherent discourse contexts as when following series of unrelated sentences. Participants read temporarily ambiguous sentences that resolved to sentential complement. The sentences either followed a discourse context or a series of scrambled sentences. In addition, the number of sentences that resolved to a sentential complement in the preceding sentence set was also varied. Reading times across the disambiguating and postdisambiguating regions were recorded. No significant main effects or interactions were found for either region. However, follow-up analyses, using per phoneme reading times and nonparametric statistics resulted in a significant main effect of coherence for some comparisons.

Author: Brady, Jill

Topic: Psychology
Media: Book
ISBN: 3639129091
Language: English
Pages: 264