Conceptual plural information is used to guide early parsing decisions: Evidence from garden-path sentences with reciprocal verbs
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Conceptual plural information is used to guide early parsing decisions: Evidence from garden-path sentences with reciprocal verbs.
In three eyetracking studies, we investigated the role of conceptual plurality in initial parsing decisions in temporarily ambiguous sentences with reciprocal verbs (e.g., While the lovers kissed the baby played alone). We varied the subject of the first clause using three types of plural noun phrases: conjoined noun phrases (the bride and the groom), plural definite descriptions (the lovers), ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Memory and Language
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0749-596X
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2009.02.003