The interaction of syntactic and lexical information sources in language processing: The case of the noun-verb ambiguity
This paper reports the results of a lexical decision experiment and a selfpaced reading experiment that investigate the interaction between syntactic and lexical information in on-line language processing, using the noun-verb ambiguity in English. The results of both experiments provide support f...
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| author | Fedorenko, Evelina G. Piantadosi, Steven Thomas Gibson, Edward A. |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Fedorenko, Evelina G. Piantadosi, Steven Thomas Gibson, Edward A. |
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| description | This paper reports the results of a lexical decision experiment and a selfpaced
reading experiment that investigate the interaction between syntactic
and lexical information in on-line language processing, using the noun-verb
ambiguity in English. The results of both experiments provide support for
the hypothesis whereby syntactic and lexical information are two
independent factors in the process of sentence comprehension, consistent
with previous work in the sense-ambiguity processing literature. Our results
therefore add to the body of literature that demonstrates that the process of
language comprehension is guided by numerous independent information
sources, rather than syntactic information alone, as some of the earlier
proposals in the field of sentence processing hypothesized. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/739742022-09-29T22:53:15Z The interaction of syntactic and lexical information sources in language processing: The case of the noun-verb ambiguity Fedorenko, Evelina G. Piantadosi, Steven Thomas Gibson, Edward A. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Gibson, Edward A. Gibson, Edward A. Piantadosi, Steven Thomas Fedorenko, Evelina G. This paper reports the results of a lexical decision experiment and a selfpaced reading experiment that investigate the interaction between syntactic and lexical information in on-line language processing, using the noun-verb ambiguity in English. The results of both experiments provide support for the hypothesis whereby syntactic and lexical information are two independent factors in the process of sentence comprehension, consistent with previous work in the sense-ambiguity processing literature. Our results therefore add to the body of literature that demonstrates that the process of language comprehension is guided by numerous independent information sources, rather than syntactic information alone, as some of the earlier proposals in the field of sentence processing hypothesized. 2012-10-15T16:34:05Z 2012-10-15T16:34:05Z 2012 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2158-9216 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73974 Fedorenko, Evelina, Steven T. Piantadosi, and Edward Gibson. "The interaction of syntactic and lexical information sources in language processing: The case of the noun-verb ambiguity." Journal of Cognitive Science 13: 211-35, 2012. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3823-514X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5912-883X en_US Journal of Cognitive Science Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Institute for Cognitive Science, Seoul National University Gibson via Courtney Crummett |
| spellingShingle | Fedorenko, Evelina G. Piantadosi, Steven Thomas Gibson, Edward A. The interaction of syntactic and lexical information sources in language processing: The case of the noun-verb ambiguity |
| title | The interaction of syntactic and lexical information sources in language processing: The case of the noun-verb ambiguity |
| title_full | The interaction of syntactic and lexical information sources in language processing: The case of the noun-verb ambiguity |
| title_fullStr | The interaction of syntactic and lexical information sources in language processing: The case of the noun-verb ambiguity |
| title_full_unstemmed | The interaction of syntactic and lexical information sources in language processing: The case of the noun-verb ambiguity |
| title_short | The interaction of syntactic and lexical information sources in language processing: The case of the noun-verb ambiguity |
| title_sort | interaction of syntactic and lexical information sources in language processing the case of the noun verb ambiguity |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73974 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3823-514X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5912-883X |
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