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Probabilistic and Selectional Biases in Ambiguity Resolution during Real-time Sentence Processing

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: This study examines the influence of lexical frequency bias and\nselectional constraints on the resolution of complement\nambiguity during sentence processing. Some argue that in\ncomplement ambiguity resolution, lexical frequency bias and\nselectional constraints lead to the clausal complement before\ndisambiguation, while others claim that the nominal\ncomplement is maintained until the disambiguating verb\nappears. The present study investigates this issue in two\nreading experiments using a temporal adjunct. The results\nsuggested the rapid influence of lexical frequency bias and\nselectional constraints. However, the temporal adjunct\nintroduces a bias towards the nominal complement, and\nultimately overrides the influence of the lexical frequency bias\nand selectional constraints. These results suggest that\nprocessing preferences dynamically change, influenced by\nmultiple biases.

Source: eScholarship (California Digital Library)

Author: Fujita, Hiroki

Institution: University of Potsdam

Language: English

Topic: Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Award: Ähnlichkeitsbasierte Interferenz in lokal ambigen Sätzen

OpenAlex ID: W6995917253