Maintenance Cost in the Processing of Subject-Verb Dependencies

Autor/inn/en	Ristic, Bojana; Mancini, Simona; Molinaro, Nicola; Staub, Adrian
Titel	Maintenance Cost in the Processing of Subject-Verb Dependencies
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 48 (2022) 6, S.829-838 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Ristic, Bojana) ORCID (Mancini, Simona) ORCID (Molinaro, Nicola)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/xlm0000863
Schlagwörter	Sentences; Reading Comprehension; Verbs; Form Classes (Languages); Reading Processes; Eye Movements; Phonemes; Reading Rate; Pacing; Spanish; Adults; Foreign Countries; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Leseverstehen; Analytischer Sprachbau; Leseprozess; Augenbewegung; Fonem; Reading readiness; Reading speed; Lesegeschwindigkeit; Lerntempo; Spanisch; Ausland; Spanien
Abstract	Although research in sentence comprehension has suggested that processing long-distance dependencies involves maintenance between the elements that form the dependency, studies on maintenance of long-distance subject-verb (SV) dependencies are scarce. The few relevant studies have delivered mixed results using self-paced reading or phoneme-monitoring tasks. In the current study, we used eye tracking during reading to test whether maintaining a long-distance SV dependency results in a processing cost on an intervening adverbial clause. In Experiment 1, we studied this question in Spanish and found that both go-past reading times and regressions out of an adverbial clause to the previous regions were significantly increased when the clause interrupts a SV dependency compared to when the same clause doesn't interrupt this dependency. We then replicated these findings in English (Experiment 2), observing significantly increased go-past reading times on a clause interrupting a SV dependency. The current study provides the first eye-tracking data showing a maintenance cost in the processing of SV dependencies cross-linguistically. Sentence comprehension models should account for the maintenance cost generated by SV dependency processing, and future research should focus on the nature of the maintained representation. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01