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Van Dyke, Julie A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2007
Evidence from 3 experiments reveals interference effects from structural relationships that are inconsistent with any grammatical parse of the perceived input. Processing disruption was observed when items occurring between a head and a dependent overlapped with either (or both) syntactic or semantic features of the dependent. Effects of syntactic…
Descriptors: Interference (Language), Semantics, Comprehension, Sentence Structure
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Staub, Adrian; Clifton, Charles – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
Readers' eye movements were monitored as they read sentences in which two noun phrases or two independent clauses were connected by the word or (NP-coordination and S-coordination, respectively). The word either could be present or absent earlier in the sentence. When either was present, the material immediately following or was read more quickly,…
Descriptors: Nouns, Eye Movements, Sentence Structure, Reading Processes