NDLI: Sentence Complexity and Working Memory Effects in Ambiguity Resolution

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Author	Kim, Ji Hyon Christianson, Kiel
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Two self-paced reading experiments using a paraphrase decision task paradigm were performed to investigate how sentence complexity contributed to the relative clause (RC) attachment preferences of speakers of different working memory capacities (WMCs). Experiment 1 (English) showed working memory effects on relative clause processing in both offline RC attachment preferences and in online reading time measures, but no effects of syntactic complexity. In Experiment 2 (Korean), syntactic complexity due to greater distance between integrating heads, as measured by the dependency locality theory (Gibson in Cognition 68:1–76, 1998), significantly increased the proportion of attachment to NP1. However, no effects of working memory were found. The difference in results between English and Korean is proposed to be due to head-directionality effects. The results of our study support the conclusion that working memory-based accounts provide a better explanation than previous language-dependent accounts for differences in RC attachment preferences. We propose that previous language dependent-accounts of cross-linguistic differences in RC processing have overlooked the interaction between individual WMC and a language’s general structure, which is a central factor in RC attachment.
Starting Page	393
Ending Page	411
Page Count	19
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00906905
Journal	Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
Volume Number	42
Issue Number	5
e-ISSN	15736555
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2012-07-03
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Working memory Sentence complexity Relative clause processing Ambiguity resolution Paraphrase decision task Psychology Cognitive Psychology Psycholinguistics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Linguistics and Language

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