Structure modulates similarity-based interference in sluicing: An eye tracking study.
In cue-based content-addressable approaches to memory, a target and its competitors are retrieved in parallel from memory via a fast, associative cue-matching procedure under a severely limited focus of attention. Such a parallel matching procedure could in principle ignore the serial order or hiera...
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| description | In cue-based content-addressable approaches to memory, a target and its competitors are retrieved in parallel from memory via a fast, associative cue-matching procedure under a severely limited focus of attention. Such a parallel matching procedure could in principle ignore the serial order or hierarchical structure characteristic of linguistic relations. I present an eye tracking while reading experiment that investigates whether the sentential position of a potential antecedent modulates the strength of similarity-based interference, a well-studied effect in which increased similarity in features between a target and its competitors results in slower and less accurate retrieval overall. The manipulation trades on an independently established Locality bias in sluiced structures to associate a wh-remnant (which ones) in clausal ellipsis with the most local correlate (some wines), as in The tourists enjoyed some wines, but I don’t know which ones. The findings generally support cue-based parsing models of sentence processing that are subject to similarity-based interference in retrieval, and provide additional support to the growing body of evidence that retrieval is sensitive to both the structural position of a target antecedent and its competitors, and the specificity of retrieval cues. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2fd3fb1250584710bc74a02c4d74b59f2022-12-21T20:11:30ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782015-12-01610.3389/fpsyg.2015.01839155701Structure modulates similarity-based interference in sluicing: An eye tracking study.Jesse A. Harris0University of California, Los AngelesIn cue-based content-addressable approaches to memory, a target and its competitors are retrieved in parallel from memory via a fast, associative cue-matching procedure under a severely limited focus of attention. Such a parallel matching procedure could in principle ignore the serial order or hierarchical structure characteristic of linguistic relations. I present an eye tracking while reading experiment that investigates whether the sentential position of a potential antecedent modulates the strength of similarity-based interference, a well-studied effect in which increased similarity in features between a target and its competitors results in slower and less accurate retrieval overall. The manipulation trades on an independently established Locality bias in sluiced structures to associate a wh-remnant (which ones) in clausal ellipsis with the most local correlate (some wines), as in The tourists enjoyed some wines, but I don’t know which ones. The findings generally support cue-based parsing models of sentence processing that are subject to similarity-based interference in retrieval, and provide additional support to the growing body of evidence that retrieval is sensitive to both the structural position of a target antecedent and its competitors, and the specificity of retrieval cues.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01839/fullworking memoryeye trackingellipsisSimilarity-based interferencesentence processing. |
| spellingShingle | Jesse A. Harris Structure modulates similarity-based interference in sluicing: An eye tracking study. Frontiers in Psychology working memory eye tracking ellipsis Similarity-based interference sentence processing. |
| title | Structure modulates similarity-based interference in sluicing: An eye tracking study. |
| title_full | Structure modulates similarity-based interference in sluicing: An eye tracking study. |
| title_fullStr | Structure modulates similarity-based interference in sluicing: An eye tracking study. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Structure modulates similarity-based interference in sluicing: An eye tracking study. |
| title_short | Structure modulates similarity-based interference in sluicing: An eye tracking study. |
| title_sort | structure modulates similarity based interference in sluicing an eye tracking study |
| topic | working memory eye tracking ellipsis Similarity-based interference sentence processing. |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01839/full |
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