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Locality and Word Order in Active Dependency Formation in Bangla
Research on filler-gap dependencies has revealed that there are constraints on possible gap sites, and that real-time sentence processing is sensitive to these constraints. This work has shown that comprehenders have preferences for potential gap sites, and immediately detect when these preferences...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4997089/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27610090 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01235 |
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author | Chacón, Dustin A. Imtiaz, Mashrur Dasgupta, Shirsho Murshed, Sikder M. Dan, Mina Phillips, Colin |
author_facet | Chacón, Dustin A. Imtiaz, Mashrur Dasgupta, Shirsho Murshed, Sikder M. Dan, Mina Phillips, Colin |
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description | Research on filler-gap dependencies has revealed that there are constraints on possible gap sites, and that real-time sentence processing is sensitive to these constraints. This work has shown that comprehenders have preferences for potential gap sites, and immediately detect when these preferences are not met. However, neither the mechanisms that select preferred gap sites nor the mechanisms used to detect whether these preferences are met are well-understood. In this paper, we report on three experiments in Bangla, a language in which gaps may occur in either a pre-verbal embedded clause or a post-verbal embedded clause. This word order variation allows us to manipulate whether the first gap linearly available is contained in the same clause as the filler, which allows us to dissociate structural locality from linear locality. In Experiment 1, an untimed ambiguity resolution task, we found a global bias to resolve a filler-gap dependency with the first gap linearly available, regardless of structural hierarchy. In Experiments 2 and 3, which use the filled-gap paradigm, we found sensitivity to disruption only when the blocked gap site is both structurally and linearly local, i.e., the filler and the gap site are contained in the same clause. This suggests that comprehenders may not show sensitivity to the disruption of all preferred gap resolutions. |
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spelling | pubmed-49970892016-09-08 Locality and Word Order in Active Dependency Formation in Bangla Chacón, Dustin A. Imtiaz, Mashrur Dasgupta, Shirsho Murshed, Sikder M. Dan, Mina Phillips, Colin Front Psychol Psychology Research on filler-gap dependencies has revealed that there are constraints on possible gap sites, and that real-time sentence processing is sensitive to these constraints. This work has shown that comprehenders have preferences for potential gap sites, and immediately detect when these preferences are not met. However, neither the mechanisms that select preferred gap sites nor the mechanisms used to detect whether these preferences are met are well-understood. In this paper, we report on three experiments in Bangla, a language in which gaps may occur in either a pre-verbal embedded clause or a post-verbal embedded clause. This word order variation allows us to manipulate whether the first gap linearly available is contained in the same clause as the filler, which allows us to dissociate structural locality from linear locality. In Experiment 1, an untimed ambiguity resolution task, we found a global bias to resolve a filler-gap dependency with the first gap linearly available, regardless of structural hierarchy. In Experiments 2 and 3, which use the filled-gap paradigm, we found sensitivity to disruption only when the blocked gap site is both structurally and linearly local, i.e., the filler and the gap site are contained in the same clause. This suggests that comprehenders may not show sensitivity to the disruption of all preferred gap resolutions. Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC4997089/ /pubmed/27610090 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01235 Text en Copyright © 2016 Chacón, Imtiaz, Dasgupta, Murshed, Dan and Phillips. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Chacón, Dustin A. Imtiaz, Mashrur Dasgupta, Shirsho Murshed, Sikder M. Dan, Mina Phillips, Colin Locality and Word Order in Active Dependency Formation in Bangla |
title | Locality and Word Order in Active Dependency Formation in Bangla |
title_full | Locality and Word Order in Active Dependency Formation in Bangla |
title_fullStr | Locality and Word Order in Active Dependency Formation in Bangla |
title_full_unstemmed | Locality and Word Order in Active Dependency Formation in Bangla |
title_short | Locality and Word Order in Active Dependency Formation in Bangla |
title_sort | locality and word order in active dependency formation in bangla |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4997089/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27610090 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01235 |
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