The Use of Verb Information in Parsing: Different Statistical Analyses Lead to Contradictory Conclusions  

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Kennison, Shelia M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Psycholinguistics Research =>ada di SpringerLink 1972(vol.1) - Mutakhir; PROQUEST vol. 38 no. 4 (Aug. 2009), page 363-378.
Topik: Sentence processing · Syntactic parsing · Verb information · Syntactic ambiguity · Correlation · Regression
Fulltext: vol. 38 issue 4 August 2009. p. 363 - 378.pdf (177.17KB)

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The research investigated how comprehenders use verb information during syntactic parsing. Two reading experiments investigated the relationship between verb-specific variables and reading time. These experimentswere close replications of priorwork; however, two statistical techniques were used, rather than one. These were item-by-item correlations and participant-by-participant regression. In Experiment 1, reading time was measured using a self-paced moving window. In Experiment 2, eyemovementswere recorded during reading. The results of both experiments showed that the results of two types of statistical analyses support contradictory conclusions. The analyses involving participant-by-participant regression analyses provided no evidence for the early use of verb information in parsing and support syntax-first approaches to parsing. In contrast, the results of item-by-item correlation were consistent with the prior research, supporting the view that verb information can guide initial parsing decisions. Implications for theories of parsing are discussed.

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