Grammar is background in sentence processing
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Grammar is background in sentence processing. / Christensen, Marie Herget; Kristensen, Line Burholt; Vinther, Nicoline Munck; Boye, Kasper.
I: Language and Cognition, Bind 13, Nr. 1, 2021, s. 128-153.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Grammar is background in sentence processing
AU - Christensen, Marie Herget
AU - Kristensen, Line Burholt
AU - Vinther, Nicoline Munck
AU - Boye, Kasper
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Boye and Harder (2012) claim that the grammatical-lexical distinction has to do with discourse prominence: lexical elements can convey discursively primary (or foreground) information, whereas grammatical elements cannot (outside corrective contexts). This paper reports two experiments that test this claim. Experiment 1 was a letter detection study, in which readers were instructed to mark specific letters in the text. Experiment 2 was a text-change study, in which participants were asked to register omitted words. Experiment 2 showed a main effect of word category: readers attend more to words in lexical elements (e.g. full verbs) than to those in grammatical elements (e.g. auxiliaries). Experiment 1 showed an interaction: attention to letters in focused constituents increased more for grammatical words than for lexical words. The results suggest that the lexical-grammatical contrast does indeed guide readers’ attention to words.
AB - Boye and Harder (2012) claim that the grammatical-lexical distinction has to do with discourse prominence: lexical elements can convey discursively primary (or foreground) information, whereas grammatical elements cannot (outside corrective contexts). This paper reports two experiments that test this claim. Experiment 1 was a letter detection study, in which readers were instructed to mark specific letters in the text. Experiment 2 was a text-change study, in which participants were asked to register omitted words. Experiment 2 showed a main effect of word category: readers attend more to words in lexical elements (e.g. full verbs) than to those in grammatical elements (e.g. auxiliaries). Experiment 1 showed an interaction: attention to letters in focused constituents increased more for grammatical words than for lexical words. The results suggest that the lexical-grammatical contrast does indeed guide readers’ attention to words.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - grammatik
KW - opmærksomhed
KW - leksikon
KW - Fokus
KW - bogstavsøgning
KW - Ændringsblindhed
KW - Sætningsprocessering
KW - grammar
KW - attention
KW - lexicon
KW - focus
KW - letter detection
KW - change blindness
KW - sentence processing
U2 - 10.1017/langcog.2020.30
DO - 10.1017/langcog.2020.30
M3 - Journal article
VL - 13
SP - 128
EP - 153
JO - Language and Cognition
JF - Language and Cognition
SN - 1866-9808
IS - 1
ER -
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