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The Influence of Syntactic Expectations on Reading Comprehension Is Malleable and Strategic: An Eye-Tracking Study of English Dative Alternation

Abstract

Language processing is incremental and inherently predictive. Against this theoretic backdrop, we investigated the role of upcoming structural information in the comprehension of the English dative alternation. The use of eye-tracking enabled us to examine both the time course and locus of the effect associated with (a) structural expectations based on a lifetime of experience with language, and (b) rapid adaptation of the reader to the local …

Authors

Bridgwater E; Kyröläinen A-J; Kuperman V

Journal

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, Vol. 73, No. 3, pp. 179–192

Publisher

American Psychological Association (APA)

Publication Date

September 2019

DOI

10.1037/cep0000173

ISSN

1196-1961