Author, as appears in the article.: Demestre, J
Department: Psicologia
URV's Author/s: Demestre Viladevall, Josep
Keywords: Antecedent assignment Control information Null subject Parsing Spanish
Abstract: A central topic in psycholinguistics is the study of how and when the parser assigns an antecedent to referentially-dependent elements. One such referentially-dependent element is the null subject of non-finite clauses. The aim of the present study was to examine the role of verb control information in the assignment of an antecedent to such a null subject. The results so far are inconclusive. Some authors argue that verb control information has a late influence, whereas others argue that such verb-specific information has a very rapid influence. We report a self-paced reading study in Spanish in which verb type (subject vs. object control) and grammaticality (grammatical vs. ungrammatical) were manipulated. The grammaticality manipulation was carried out by introducing a person anomaly at the infinitive itself, and not at a later word (e.g., "Te prometi/aconseje adelgazarme/adelgazarte cinco quilos en un mes." Literal translation, "I to you promised/advised to losemyself/yourself five kilos in a month"). With such a manipulation we can examine whether at the first possible point (i.e., the infinitive) verb control information was used to assign the correct antecedent (i.e., the subject in sentences with a subject-control verb, and the object in sentences with an object-control verb) to PRO. The results showed that at the infinitive there was a main effect of grammaticality, meaning that the correct antecedent has already been assigned to PRO. The present findings are consistent with models that assume that verb-specific information plays an important role in the initial stages of sentence processing.
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licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: josep.demestre@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0001-9221-066X
Record's date: 2024-02-17
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1320966/full
Papper original source: Frontiers In Psychology. 14
APA: Demestre, J (2024). On the rapid use of verb-control information in sentence processing. Frontiers In Psychology, 14(), -. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1320966
Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Article's DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1320966
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2024
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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