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The actress was on the balcony, after all: Eye-tracking locality and PR-availability effects in Spanish

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    Identifier: imarina:9173268
    Authors:
    Aguilar MFerré PGavilán JMHinojosa JADemestre J
    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.
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    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: josep.demestre@urv.cat mariadelpilar.ferre@urv.cat
    Author identifier: 0000-0001-9221-066X 0000-0002-3192-0040
    Record's date: 2024-07-27
    Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Link to the original source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010027721000433
    Licence document URL: https://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
  • Keywords:

    Cognitive Neuroscience,Developmental and Educational Psychology,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology,Language and Linguistics,Linguistics and Language,Psychology, Experimental
    Universality
    Syntax
    Syntactic ambiguities
    Relative clauses
    Relative clause attachment
    Pseudo-relatives
    Preferences
    Parsing principles
    Locality
    Late-closure
    Eye-tracking
    English
    Context
    Comprehension
    Argument structure
    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
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