Dependency-dependent interference: NPI interference, agreement attraction, and global pragmatic inferences

Previous psycholinguistics studies have shown that when forming a long distance dependency in online processing, the parser sometimes accepts a sentence even though the required grammatical constraints are only partially met. A mechanistic account of how such errors arise sheds light on both the und...

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Main Authors: Ming eXiang, Julian eGrove, Anastasia eGiannakidou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00708/full