Autor según el artículo: Demestre, J
Departamento: Psicologia
Autor/es de la URV: Demestre Viladevall, Josep
Palabras clave: Spanish Parsing Null subject Control information Antecedent assignment
Resumen: 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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Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Direcció de correo del autor: josep.demestre@urv.cat
Identificador del autor: 0000-0001-9221-066X
Fecha de alta del registro: 2024-08-03
Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Enlace a la fuente original: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1320966/full
URL Documento de licencia: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Frontiers In Psychology. 14
Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes 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
DOI del artículo: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1320966
Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Año de publicación de la revista: 2024
Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications