The processing signature of anticipatory reading
An Eye-Tracking Study on Lexical Predictions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5084545 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arnout Koornneef (0000-0002-8250-4979, Leiden University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 449-479 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-26 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ling-2021-0014 |
| OpenAlex | W3131962063 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 58 |
Current approaches to the human language faculty emphasize that during real-time processing anticipatory mechanisms play a vital role for people to parse and comprehend linguistic input at a sufficient pace. Consistent with this view, several Event-Related Potential (ERP) and behavioral self-paced reading (SPR) studies revealed a processing disadvantage for pre-nominal linguistic elements that (grammatically) mismatched with an expected upcoming noun. More recently, however, these findings have been challenged because the results are difficult to replicate. In the current study, I continue this line of replication research with a complementary method: eye tracking. I conducted two experiments aimed at reproducing prior findings of a SPR study of van Berkum, Jos J. A., Colin M. Brown, Pienie Zwitserlood, Valesca Kooijman & Hagoort Peter. 2005. Anticipating upcoming words in discourse: Evidence from ERPs and reading times.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition31(3). 443-467. The participants read two-sentence stories constructed to elicit a strong lexical prediction about an upcoming noun. To assess whether readers were activating the lexical prediction, the noun was preceded by two gender-inflected adjectives carrying an inflectional suffix that either matched or mismatched with the syntactic gender of the predicted noun. Overall, I did not obtain evidence for strong lexical prediction as the eye-tracking metrics revealed no processing disadvantage for mismatching adjectives (i.e., contrary to the findings of van Berkum et al.). In fact, in some cases readers allocated more processing resources to pre-nominal adjectives that morphologicallymatchedwith the gender of the predicted noun. These intriguing findings will be discussed in the context of the time course, the processing costs, and the validation processes of lexical predictions
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Lexical decision task · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Noun · Parsing · Reading (process) · Sentence · Sentence processing · Suffix · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development
Presumptive Meanings
Four central questions about prediction in language processing
Reading Senseless Sentences
Anticipating Upcoming Words in Discourse
Neural mechanisms of language comprehension
Contextual effects on word perception and eye movements during reading
Making and correcting errors during sentence comprehension
Brain potentials during reading reflect word expectancy and semantic association
Eye movements in reading words and sentences
The time-course of prediction in incremental sentence processing
Anticipating Words and Their Gender
Getting real about Semantic Illusions
Large-scale replication study reveals a limit on probabilistic prediction in language comprehension
Thinking ahead
Probabilistic word pre-activation during language comprehension inferred from electrical brain activity
Do people use language production to make predictions during comprehension?
Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science
The free-energy principle
Random effects structure for confirmatory hypothesis testing
Mixed-effects modeling with crossed random effects for subjects and items
Articles, adjectives and age of onset
Discourse-Based Word Anticipation During Language Processing
Coherence Threshold and the Continuity of Processing
Primitives of Binding
The 'Good Enough' Approach to Language Comprehension
Pre-Processing in Sentence Comprehension
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |