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The transposed-word effect revisited: the role of syntax in word position coding

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Skilled readers may misinterpret "you that read wrong" for "you read that wrong": a transposedword effect. This relatively novel finding, which supports parallel word processing during sentence reading, is attributed to a combination of noisy bottom-up word position coding and top-down syntactic constraints. The present study focussed on the contribution of syntactic constraints in driving transposed-word effects. In a speeded grammatical decision experiment, two types of ungrammatical transposed-word sequences were compared, namely a transposition either across a syntactic phrase ("the have girls gone home") or within a syntactic phrase ("the girls gone have home"). We found longer response times and lower accuracy rates for within-phrase transpositions than across-phrase transpositions, demonstrating a direct influence of syntactic structures on the transposed-word effect. We conclude that the assignment of words to positions in a sentence is guided by top-down syntactic constraints.
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hal-03833413 , version 1 (28-10-2022)

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Yun Wen, Jonathan Mirault, Jonathan Grainger. The transposed-word effect revisited: the role of syntax in word position coding. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2021, 36 (5), pp.668 - 673. ⟨10.1080/23273798.2021.1880608⟩. ⟨hal-03833413⟩
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