Integration of Syntactic and Semantic Information in Predictive Processing: Cross-Linguistic Evidence from German and English Export

@article{citeulike:1414151, abstract = {Two visual-world eyetracking experiments were conducted to investigate whether, how, and when syntactic and semantic constraints are integrated and used to predict properties of subsequent input. Experiment 1 contrasted auditory German constructions such as, ” The hare-nominative eats ... (the cabbage-acc)” versus ” The hare-accusative eats ... (the fox-nom),” presented with a picture containing a hare, fox, cabbage, and distractor. We found that the probabilities of the eye movements to the cabbage and fox before the onset of NP2 were modulated by the case-marking of NP1, indicating that the case-marking (syntactic) information and verbs' semantic constraints are integrated rapidly enough to predict the most plausible NP2 in the scene. Using English versions of the same stimuli in active/passive voice (Experiment 2), we replicated the same effect, but at a slightly earlier position in the sentence. We discuss the discrepancies in the two Germanic languages in terms of the ease of integrating information across, or within, constituents.}, author = {Kamide, Yuki and Scheepers, Christoph and Altmann, Gerry T.}, citeulike-article-id = {1414151}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1021933015362}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1023/A:1021933015362}, journal = {Journal of Psycholinguistic Research}, keywords = {eye-movements, grammatical-number, sentence-comprehension, visual-world-paradigm}, month = {January}, number = {1}, pages = {37--55}, posted-at = {2008-09-11 01:29:03}, priority = {0}, title = {Integration of Syntactic and Semantic Information in Predictive Processing: Cross-Linguistic Evidence from German and English}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1021933015362}, volume = {32}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1414151 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1414151 N2 - Two visual-world eyetracking experiments were conducted to investigate whether, how, and when syntactic and semantic constraints are integrated and used to predict properties of subsequent input. Experiment 1 contrasted auditory German constructions such as, “The hare-nominative eats ... (the cabbage-acc)” versus “The hare-accusative eats ... (the fox-nom),” presented with a picture containing a hare, fox, cabbage, and distractor. We found that the probabilities of the eye movements to the cabbage and fox before the onset of NP2 were modulated by the case-marking of NP1, indicating that the case-marking (syntactic) information and verbs' semantic constraints are integrated rapidly enough to predict the most plausible NP2 in the scene. Using English versions of the same stimuli in active/passive voice (Experiment 2), we replicated the same effect, but at a slightly earlier position in the sentence. We discuss the discrepancies in the two Germanic languages in terms of the ease of integrating information across, or within, constituents. IS - 1 JF - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research EP - 55 TI - Integration of Syntactic and Semantic Information in Predictive Processing: Cross-Linguistic Evidence from German and English VL - 32 SP - 37 KW - eye-movements KW - grammatical-number KW - sentence-comprehension KW - visual-world-paradigm AU - Kamide, Yuki AU - Scheepers, Christoph AU - Altmann, Gerry PY - 2003/01/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1021933015362 ER -