Abstract:
:When processing the initial segment of a sentence, readers may favor an interpretation that will turn out to be incorrect as more words are read. In these cases, a reanalysis process is necessary in order to correct the mental representation built up to that point. It has been previously proposed that readers obey a minimum change restriction, as they prefer to change the mental representation as little as possible. The present paper reports two experiments in Japanese suggesting that a minimal change restriction is unnecessary to characterize reanalysis. It is proposed instead that the present data and previous observations are more naturally explained by a constraint-driven model in which revisions are performed only when required by parsing constraints.
journal_name
Lang Speechjournal_title
Language and speechauthors
Miyamoto ETdoi
10.1177/00238309030460010301subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2003-03-01 00:00:00pages
23-52issue
Pt 1eissn
0023-8309issn
1756-6053journal_volume
46pub_type
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