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Online representations of non-canonical sentences are more than good-enough ...
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Abstract:
Proponents of good-enough processing suggest that readers often (mis)interpret certain sentences using fast-and-frugal heuristics, such that for non-canonical sentences (e.g., The dog was bitten by the man ) people confuse the thematic roles of the nouns. We tested this theory by examining the effect of sentence canonicality on the reading of a follow-up sentence. In a self-paced reading study, 60 young and 60 older adults read an implausible sentence in either canonical (e.g., It was the peasant that executed the king ) or non-canonical form (e.g., It was the king that was executed by the peasant ), followed by a sentence that was implausible given a good-enough misinterpretation of the first sentence (e.g., Afterwards, the peasant rode back to the countryside ) or a sentence that was implausible given a correct interpretation of the first sentence (e.g., Afterwards, the king rode back to his castle ). We hypothesised that if non-canonical sentences are systematically misinterpreted, then sentence ...
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170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified; FOS Psychology
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.25384/sage.c.5520138.v1
https://sage.figshare.com/collections/Online_representations_of_non-canonical_sentences_are_more_than_good-enough/5520138/1
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