Effects of noun phrase type on sentence complexity

Article Abstract:

The contribution of the characteristics of noun phrases to the difference in the processing ability between object- and subject-extracted relative clauses was assessed. Self-paid reading experiments were performed, which showed that the similarity in the memory representation of noun phrases contributed to the difficulty in the processing of syntactically complex sentences.

Evaluation, Comprehension, Interference (Linguistics), Parsing, Linguistic analysis (Linguistics), Nouns

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Charting the time-course of VP-ellipsis sentence comprehension: evidence for an initial and independent structural analysis

Article Abstract:

Experiments were conducted to investigate how constructions containing covert material inherent in verb phrase (VP) ellipsis enabled language comprehension. It was concluded that a shallow syntactic representation is obtained from the initial analysis of a sentence and that lexical and probabilistic information are not taken into account.

United States, Science & research, Research, Verbs

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When sex affects syntax: contextual influences in sentence production

Article Abstract:

Gender agreement between a sentential subject and a predicate adjective shows conceptual information playing a key role in determining syntactic accuracy. This was a positive finding for content congruent with syntactic information and was found to interfere with accuracy when incongruent.

Psychological aspects, Statistical Data Included, Grammar, Sex role, Sex roles

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