TY - JOUR
T1 - Sensitivity to syntactic changes in garden path sentences
AU - Christianson, Kiel
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Acknowledgements The author thanks the members of the Educational Psychology Psycholinguistics Lab at the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, especially Kent Lee, Ji Kim, Steve Luke, and Jung Hyun Lim for assistance in running the experiments. Thanks also to the audience at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society in Houston, where some of the results were first presented. This research was funded in part by a UIUC Campus Research Board grant to the author. Any errors are solely the author’s responsibility. Author contact: Kiel Christianson, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois, <[email protected]>.
PY - 2008/11
Y1 - 2008/11
N2 - The results of two text-change experiments are reported. The experiments were designed to investigate the syntactic representation of garden path sentences such as While the man hunted the deer that was brown and graceful ran into the woods, specifically the claim that a significant number of misinterpretations of such sentences are due to incomplete syntactic reanalysis (Christianson et al. Cogn Psychol 42:368-407, 2001). In the experiments reported here, the pronoun it was added (Expt. 1) or deleted (Expt. 2) from short texts containing such sentences. Participants were more or less likely to notice both deletions and additions of it in certain syntactic contexts, as predicted by the incomplete reanalysis account. Correlations with reading times support this interpretation of the results. Overall, the data are consistent with a "good enough" view of language processing (Ferreira et al. J Psycholinguist Res 30:3-20, 2001).
AB - The results of two text-change experiments are reported. The experiments were designed to investigate the syntactic representation of garden path sentences such as While the man hunted the deer that was brown and graceful ran into the woods, specifically the claim that a significant number of misinterpretations of such sentences are due to incomplete syntactic reanalysis (Christianson et al. Cogn Psychol 42:368-407, 2001). In the experiments reported here, the pronoun it was added (Expt. 1) or deleted (Expt. 2) from short texts containing such sentences. Participants were more or less likely to notice both deletions and additions of it in certain syntactic contexts, as predicted by the incomplete reanalysis account. Correlations with reading times support this interpretation of the results. Overall, the data are consistent with a "good enough" view of language processing (Ferreira et al. J Psycholinguist Res 30:3-20, 2001).
KW - Good-enough language processing
KW - Reading
KW - Sentence comprehension
KW - Syntactic parsing
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U2 - 10.1007/s10936-008-9072-4
DO - 10.1007/s10936-008-9072-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 18443907
AN - SCOPUS:56749169462
SN - 0090-6905
VL - 37
SP - 391
EP - 403
JO - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
JF - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
IS - 6
ER -