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The time course of plausibility effects on eye movements in reading: Evidence from noun-noun compounds




TekijätStaub A, Rayner K, Pollatsek A, Hyona J, Majewski H

KustantajaAMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC/EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING FOUNDATION

Julkaisuvuosi2007

JournalJournal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition

Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimiJOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION

Lehden akronyymiJ EXP PSYCHOL LEARN

Vuosikerta33

Numero6

Aloitussivu1162

Lopetussivu1169

Sivujen määrä8

ISSN0278-7393

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.33.6.1162


Tiivistelmä
Readers' eye movements were monitored as they read sentences containing noun-noun compounds that varied in frequency (e.g., elevator mechanic, mountain lion). The left constituent of the compound was either plausible or implausible as a head noun at the point at which it appeared, whereas the compound as a whole was always plausible. When the head noun analysis of the left constituent was implausible, reading times on this word were inflated, beginning with the first fixation. This finding is consistent with previous demonstrations of very rapid effects of plausibility on eye movements. Compound frequency did not modulate the plausibility effect, and all disruption was resolved by the time readers' eyes moved to the next word. These findings suggest (contra Kennison, 2005) that the parser initially analyzes a singular noun as a head instead of a modifier. In addition, the findings confirm that the very rapid effect of plausibility on eye movements is not due to strategic factors, because in the present experiment, unlike in previous demonstrations, this effect appeared in sentences that were globally plausible.



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