Inter-sentential Influences on Predicted Verb Subcategorization

ISBN-13: 9783639129090 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 264 str.

Jill Brady

Opis

This study investigated the influences of prior discourse context and cumulative syntactic priming on readers predictions for verb subcategorizations. An additional aim was to determine whether cumulative syntactic priming has the same degree of influence following coherent discourse contexts as when following series of unrelated sentences. Participants read temporarily ambiguous sentences that resolved to sentential complement. The sentences either followed a discourse context or a series of scrambled sentences. In addition, the number of sentences that resolved to a sentential complement in the preceding sentence set was also varied. Reading times across the disambiguating and postdisambiguating regions were recorded. No significant main effects or interactions were found for either region. However, follow-up analyses, using per phoneme reading times and nonparametric statistics resulted in a significant main effect of coherence for some comparisons.

O autorze

Jill L. Brady received her Ph.D. in Communication Science and
Disorders from the University of Pittsburgh in December 2008.
She is currently an assistant professor in the Speech Pathology
and Audiology program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.