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Effects of verbal information in the V2-position during parsing: What eye movements reveal about prediction (and integration)

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Author	Swart, Peter De Bergen, Geertje Van
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	Goal: We investigate how V2-verbal information affects the parsing of transitive sentences. More specifically, we contrast sentences with a neutral auxiliary with sentences with a lexical verb in second position and determine the effect on predictive processing of arguments, as witnessed by eye movements. Baground: In the past decade or so, evidence has accumulated that language users make use of verbal information to predict upcoming referents (e.g. Altmann&Kamide, 1999; Knoeferle et al., 2005; a.m.o.). Previous research has mainly focused on the prediction of a single argument based on the verb and one additional argument. We take this research one step further by investigating the anticipation of both arguments in a transitive sentence and how this is mediated by verbal information and animacy. To this end we crucially exploit the V2property, which makes it possible to provide the verb before its arguments when an adverbial expression occupies the sentence-initial position (the net result being a V-initial parsing situation). Experiment: We recorded eye-gaze patterns of 87 native speakers of Dutch, while they looked at a two-picture display containing an animate and inanimate character and listened to sentences with an XP-V-NP1-NP2-(Participle)-PP structure, in which NP1 can only be interpreted as the subject. We manipulated two factors: (i) eb pe in V2-position: auxiliary (hee ‘has’) or lexical; (ii) animac configaion of the NPs. This resulted in four conditions: 1. XP-VAUX:hee-NP1SU:anim-NP2OBJ:inan-ParticipleVlex-PP 2. XP-VAUX:hee-NP1SU:inan-NP2OBJ:anim-ParticipleVlex-PP 3. XP-VLEX-NP1SU:anim-NP2OBJ:inan-PP 4. XP-VLEX-NP1SU:inan-NP2OBJ:anim-PP
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