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Processing Coordinated Structures: Incrementality and Connectedness
Author(s) -
Sturt Patrick,
Lombardo Vincenzo
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
cognitive science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.498
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1551-6709
pISSN - 0364-0213
DOI - 10.1207/s15516709cog0000_8
Subject(s) - parsing , computer science , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , verb phrase , sentence , phrase , social connectedness , verb , sentence processing , pronoun , linguistics , grammar , noun phrase , psychology , noun , philosophy , psychotherapist
We recorded participants' eye movements while they read sentences containing verb‐phrase coordination. Results showed evidence of immediate processing disruption when a reflexive pronoun embedded in the conjoined verb phrase mismatched the sentence subject. We argue that this result is incompatible with models of human parsing that employ only bottom‐up parsing procedures, even when flexible constituency is employed. Models need to incorporate a mechanism similar to the adjoining operation in Tree‐Adjoining Grammar, in which one structure is inserted into another.