Processing Control Information in a Nominal Control Construction: An Eye-Tracking Study

Kwon, Nayoung; Sturt, Patrick

doi:10.1007/s10936-015-9374-2

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“…Interference effects are predicted under cue-based retrieval accounts (e.g., Lewis & Vasishth, 2005) and were found for healthy speakers in pronoun resolution (e.g., Badecker & Straub, 2002;Patterson, Trompelt, & Felser, 2014;Schroeder, 2007) and in sentences with control (Kwon & Sturt, 2016). In IWA, interference has been studied under the intervener hypothesis according to which IWA have difficulties when an element similar to the target of the dependency structurally intervenes in a dependency chain (e.g, Engel, Shapiro, & Love, 2018).…”

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Variability in sentence comprehension in aphasia in German

Pregla¹,

Lissón²,

Vasishth³

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An important property of aphasia is the variability in the performance between and within individual patients. However, there have been only a few systematic large-scale studies in a range of syntactic constructions and tasks that make it possible to investigate variability and to evaluate the quantitative predictions of competing models of sentence comprehension in aphasia (Lissón et al., under review). This is the first comprehensive investigation of variability in sentence comprehension in German, testing 18 individuals with aphasia and a control group and involving (a) several construction (canonical / non-canonical declarative sentences, subject / object relative clauses, subject / object control structures, near / distant antecedents of pronouns), (b) three tasks (object manipulation, sentence-picture matching with / without self-paced listening), and (c) two test phases (to investigate test-retest reliability). This data-set provides a detailed investigation of individual-level variation in individuals with aphasia and control participants along several dimensions of sentence processing difficulty.

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Section: Canonicity Effects In Sentence Comprehension Canonicity Effmentioning

confidence: 99%

Variability in sentence comprehension in aphasia in German

Pregla¹,

Lissón²,

Vasishth³

et al. 2020

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“…Why might the reflexive antecedent retrieval system fail to experience interference from grammatically inaccessible antecedents in WhFGD contexts, while showing evidence of such interference in reflexive antecedent retrieval mediated by the related long-distance dependencies of raising and control studied in Kwon and Sturt ( 2015 ) and Sturt and Kwon ( 2015 )? We speculate that the active nature of the WhFGD formation process may provide an explanation for this difference.…”

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“…Prior research on reflexive antecedent retrieval in configurations similar to WhFGDs in that they involve an NP associated with a subsequent, unpronounced position similar to a gap has found mixed results. Kwon and Sturt ( 2015 ) investigated reflexive antecedent retrieval in the context of nominal control constructions like (14). Control constructions of this kind resemble WhFGDs in that they can involve a dependency between a displaced NP [ Luke in (14-b)] and a position in an embedded clause [the subject position of to photograph himself in (14-b)].…”

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“…Kwon and Sturt ( 2015 ) found an effect of antecedent-reflexive gender mismatch both in nominal control constructions like (14-a), where the accessible antecedent ( Sophia ) was closer to the reflexive than the inaccessible candidate, and in nominal control constructions like (14-b), where the accessible antecedent ( Luke ) was more distant, though the former effect was reliable for more reading-time measures. They interpret this result to indicate that the control relation is processed early on and used to constrain subsequent RD formation.…”

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Wh-filler-gap dependency formation guides reflexive antecedent search

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Prior studies on online sentence processing have shown that the parser can resolve non-local dependencies rapidly and accurately. This study investigates the interaction between the processing of two such non-local dependencies: wh-filler-gap dependencies (WhFGD) and reflexive-antecedent dependencies. We show that reflexive-antecedent dependency resolution is sensitive to the presence of a WhFGD, and argue that the filler-gap dependency established by WhFGD resolution is selected online as the antecedent of a reflexive dependency. We investigate the processing of constructions like (1), where two NPs might be possible antecedents for the reflexive, namely which cowgirl and Mary. Even though Mary is linearly closer to the reflexive, the only grammatically licit antecedent for the reflexive is the more distant wh-NP, which cowgirl.(1). Which cowgirl did Mary expect to have injured herself due to negligence?Four eye-tracking text-reading experiments were conducted on examples like (1), differing in whether the embedded clause was non-finite (1 and 3) or finite (2 and 4), and in whether the tail of the wh-dependency intervened between the reflexive and its closest overt antecedent (1 and 2) or the wh-dependency was associated with a position earlier in the sentence (3 and 4). The results of Experiments 1 and 2 indicate the parser accesses the result of WhFGD formation during reflexive antecedent search. The resolution of a wh-dependency alters the representation that reflexive antecedent search operates over, allowing the grammatical but linearly distant antecedent to be accessed rapidly. In the absence of a long-distance WhFGD (Experiments 3 and 4), wh-NPs were not found to impact reading times of the reflexive, indicating that the parser's ability to select distant wh-NPs as reflexive antecedents crucially involves syntactic structure.

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“…Thus, the incongruous conditions will show longer reading times at the embedded verb marked with – si – when compared with their congruous counterpart sentences with the H subject (H-H and H-NH conditions). Crucially, although control information is accessed early during on-line sentence processing (Kwon and Sturt, 2014, 2016a), it has been also shown that the processing of subject-verb honorific agreement can be affected by a feature-matching yet structurally illicit distractor in a control construction (Sturt and Kwon, 2015). If so, we predict that the reading time penalty for the incongruous condition will be reduced in the NH-H condition, where the distractor matches the honorific features of the verb, compared to the NH-NH condition, where it does not, resulting in an interaction between the honorific features of the subject and the dative object at the embedded verb position.…”

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Proximity and Same Case Marking Do Not Increase Attraction Effect in Comprehension: Evidence From Eye-Tracking Experiments in Korean

Kwon

Sturt

2019

Front. Psychol.

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Previous studies have suggested that during the on-line sentence processing, relevant memory representations are directly accessed based on cues at retrieval (McElree et al., 2003 ). Under this hypothesis, retrieval cues activate any memory representation with matching features, leading to the so-called attraction effect. This predicts that attraction effects would be modulated by memory representation of a distractor. Here, we investigated this possibility, focusing on two factors (i.e., proximity to the retrieval point and the number of matching features) that would affect representation of a distractor in three Korean eye-tracking experiments. We predicted that if memory representation of a distractor decays over time, a distractor close to a retrieval point would lead to stronger attraction effects. We also predicted that a distractor would be more likely to lead to interference when it shares a higher number of matching features with the retrieval cues of a dependency, relative to the target of the dependency, due to multiple direct accesses based on multiple matching cues. However, the results did not show evidence that proximity of a distractor to the retrieval point enhanced attraction effects. Likewise, there was no evidence that a greater number of matching cues of a distractor alone would trigger more mis-retrieval, in contrast to a previous finding that a greater number of mismatching cues of a licit antecedent in addition to a greater number of matching cues of a distractor did so (Parker and Phillips, 2017 ). On the other hand, the results suggested that a distractor marked with nominative case was more likely to be mis-retrieved as the subject of a verb, compared to a distractor marked with a dative case, suggesting that the subject grammatical role is a critical cue for a subject-verb agreement. These results are best compatible with the hypothesis that retrieval cues are weighted, possibly depending on the nature of the dependency that is currently processed.

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Processing Control Information in a Nominal Control Construction: An Eye-Tracking Study

Cited by 14 publications

References 34 publications

Variability in sentence comprehension in aphasia in German

Variability in sentence comprehension in aphasia in German

Wh-filler-gap dependency formation guides reflexive antecedent search

Proximity and Same Case Marking Do Not Increase Attraction Effect in Comprehension: Evidence From Eye-Tracking Experiments in Korean

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