Journal article
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