Processing and Comprehension of Locally Ambiguous Participial Relative Clause Sentences in Russian

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作者：

Liubov Darzhinova

Zoe Pei-sui Luk

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[1] The Education University of Hong Kong,Department of English Language Education, Faculty of Humanities

[2] The Education University of Hong Kong,Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies, Faculty of Humanities

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Journal of Psycholinguistic Research | 2024年 / 53卷

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Sentence processing; Syntactic ambiguity; Self-paced reading; Attachment preference; Comprehension;

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摘要：

The study tested how the Recency Preference and Predicate Proximity model (Gibson et al. in Cognition 59(1):23–59, 1996, https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0277(88)90004-2) plays out by examining the attachment preferences of native Russian speakers when processing locally ambiguous participial relative clause sentences with three potential NP attachment sites in Russian. Using a self-paced reading task, reading times and noun phrase selection responses were collected. Results showed significantly shorter reading times at the disambiguating region and higher accuracy rate of selection in the high-attaching condition than in the middle- and low-attaching conditions. No significant differences were found between the middle- and low-attaching conditions. We argue that Predicate Proximity is a much stronger factor than Recency Preference in Russian.

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