Ambiguity resolution in Greek: an eye-tracking-while-reading study
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2023/14/0021/000615Keywords:
Sentence processing, Syntactic ambiguity, Comprehension, Eye-trackingAbstract
The present study uses an eye-tracking-while-reading methodology to investigate how reading is affected in the context of temporary direct object/sentence complement ambiguity and how morphological and subcategorization cues are integrated at different stages of parsing. Our results suggest that morphological cues are initially overridden by participants’ strong transitivity preferences, but are re-integrated later in time, revising participants’ initial parsing strategies. This provides evidence for distinct strategies between subcategorization and morphosyntactic processing.
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