Resumo: Neste artigo apresentamos dois experimentos que foram conduzidos para investigar, no português brasileiro, o papel da referencialidade no processamento de orações relativas associadas a Sintagmas Nominais complexos (SNs complexos) do tipo substância (como "a bolsa de (do) couro"). O experimento de leitura automonitorada revelou uma preferência imediata pela aposição não local, evidenciando uma forte influência da referencialidade do N1 no processamento da oração relativa. O experimento de rastreamento ocular, por sua vez, revelou um efeito imediato da referencialidade do N2: uma aposição local é favorecida quando o N2 é referencial e uma aposição não local é preferida quando o N2 não é referencial. Nossos dados vão na direção do que é proposto pela Hipótese de Construal
In this paper, we present two experiments (questionnaires) that we conducted to investigate the influence of referentiality, definiteness, and preposition+determiner contraction (P+D contraction) on relative clause processing. The first experiment was conducted in Brazilian Portuguese, and the results revealed an influence of referentiality and definiteness on relative clause interpretation: N2 modification (low attachment) was more probable when N2 was referential and when it was introduced by an indefinite article. The results did not reveal, however, an effect of P+D contraction. The second experiment was conducted in Spanish and it focused on referentiality and P+D contraction. The results revealed a significant effect of both factors: N2 modification was more probable when N2 was referential and when the article preceding it was not contracted with the preposition. Based on these results, we emphasize the influence of the three factors investigated on relative clause interpretation, highlighting the novelty of the P+D contraction effect.
This study aims to identify behaviours that accompany the psychological processes involved in reading sentences and deciding on a response. The response times of different participants' actions while they completed a questionnaire were measured. We focus on two datasets from the sample: cases in which participants changed their responses and cases in which they did not. The results show that changing the response has an impact on response times. More importantly, this impact occurs not only during the decision-making process but also throughout the task. This research may contribute to a better understanding of response time data in off-line techniques and to fine-tuning experimental designs.
Este trabalho investigou a atuação do princípio B da Teoria da Ligação no parsing de frases contendo o pronome ‘ele” com antecedente indisponível convergente ou divergente quanto aos traços de gênero, número e animacidade. Um experimento de leitura automonitorada revelou uma atuação imediata do princípio B e uma influência tardia dos antecedentes indisponíveis, vendo-se uma ação conjunta dos traços citados.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.