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Decoupling syntactic parsing from visual inspection: The case of relative clause attachment in French

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Three eye-tracking experiments were conducted in order to further examine French readers' attachment preferences for N1-of-N2-Relative clause (RC) constructions. Experiment 1 manipulated the relative lexical frequency of N1 and N2. Disambiguation was provides by an adjective located within the RC, whose gender agreed either with N1 or N2. First-fixation durations recorded at that point were found to be shorter when gender forced attachment to the lower-frequency noun. The aim of Experiments 2 and 3 was to examine attachment preferences in the case of a short RC (e.g. the relative pronoun followed by an intransitive verb). A general preference for low attachment was found in this case. A tentative explanation, likely to account for both frequency and length effects, is presented, based on the assumption that syntactic parsing can be decoupled from visual inspection in expert reading.
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hal-00101364 , version 1 (26-06-2012)

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Joël Pynte, Saveria Colonna. Decoupling syntactic parsing from visual inspection: The case of relative clause attachment in French. A. Kennedy, R. Radach, D. Heller, & J. Pynte. Reading as a perceptual process, Elsevier, pp.529-547, 2000. ⟨hal-00101364⟩
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