Author, as appears in the article.: Aguilar M; Ferré P; Gavilán JM; Hinojosa JA; Demestre J
Department: Psicologia
URV's Author/s: Demestre Viladevall, Josep / Ferré Romeu, Maria Pilar / Gavilán Ibáñez, José Manuel
Keywords: Universality Syntax Syntactic ambiguities Relative clauses Relative clause attachment Pseudo-relatives Preferences Parsing principles Locality Late-closure Eye-tracking English Context Comprehension Argument structure
Abstract: © 2021 Elsevier B.V. The relationship between syntactic ambiguity and locality has been a reliable cornerstone in theories of language comprehension with one exception: non-local preferences in object-modifying relative clauses preceded by two potential hosts (DP1 of DP2 RC). We test the offline and online effects of the availability of an alternative structure, the pseudo-relative, on the parsing of relative clauses. It has been claimed that pseudo-relatives are preferred to relative clauses because of their simplicity at the structural, interpretive and pragmatic levels, and act as a confound in the attachment literature (Grillo, 2012; Grillo & Costa, 2014). Our results show that attachment preferences are modulated by the availability of pseudo-relatives in offline and online tests. However, when this factor is controlled, parsing of relative clauses in Spanish is initially ruled by principles of locality, which can eventually be overridden by other factors.
Thematic Areas: Psychology, experimental Psychology Psicología Linguistics and language Linguistics Language and linguistics Filosofia/teologia:subcomissão filosofia Filosofía Filologia, lingüística i sociolingüística Experimental and cognitive psychology Developmental and educational psychology Cognitive neuroscience Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: mariadelpilar.ferre@urv.cat josep.demestre@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-3192-0040 0000-0001-9221-066X
Record's date: 2023-02-23
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010027721000433
Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Cognition. 211 (104624):
APA: Aguilar M; Ferré P; Gavilán JM; Hinojosa JA; Demestre J (2021). The actress was on the balcony, after all: Eye-tracking locality and PR-availability effects in Spanish. Cognition, 211(104624), -. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104624
Article's DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104624
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2021
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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