Abstract / Description of output
We recorded participants' eye movements while they read sentences containing verb-phrase coordination. Results showed evidence of immediate processing disruption when a reflexive pronoun embedded in the conjoined verb phrase mismatched the sentence subject. We argue that this result is incompatible with models of human parsing that employ only bottom-up parsing procedures, even when flexible constituency is employed. Models need to incorporate a mechanism similar to the adjoining operation in Tree-Adjoining Grammar, in which one structure is inserted into another.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 291-305 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Topics in Cognitive Science |
Volume | 29 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2005 |