TB6 D&L Lecture 3; Parsing and Syntactic ambiguity

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What does eyetracking provide a sensitivity to?
Speed of processing of individual words
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Where were the longer fixations in a study by Farzier & Rayner (1982)?
Disambiguating regions, more regressions to ambiguous material
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What does the study by Frazier & Rayner support?
A serial parser guided by late closure
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In Rayner & Frazier (1987), what did garden path sentences lead to?
Longer fixations at disambiguation point, more regressive eye movements
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Which theory states that context can override the garden path effect?
Referential context
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What is animacy?
A semantic variable; whether a word can act
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How does animacy affect the parse?
Makes a difference to the size of the garden path; evidence AGAINST a fully autonomous parser
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In a constraint based framework, what is ambiguity resolution seen as?
A constraint satisfaction process
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Are constraint based frameworks parallel?
Yes
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What does spanish prefer?
Early closure
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