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Processing at Phrase Boundaries During Self-Paced Reading
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Hooper, Dengler + 6 more
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Object-relative sentences in self-paced reading show the greatest processing difficulty, with longer reading times and lower comprehension accuracy than subject-relative and canonical controls.
- Why it matters: The study addresses how incremental syntactic construction and semantic interpretation align at phrase boundaries, building on prior neural findings to test behavioral sensitivity.
- What they did: Participants read object-relative, subject-relative, and canonical control sentences word-by-word, then completed a comprehension task; reading times were analyzed around phrase boundaries, node-closing operations, and semantic congruence.
- The result: Reading times peaked at phrase boundaries and rose with the number of syntactic constituents completed, and agent-patient semantic congruence had its largest effects in object-relative sentences.
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