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T1 Lexico-Semantic Influence on Syntactic Processing: An Eye-Tracking Study with Spanish Relative Clauses
A1 Álvarez García, Esther
A1 Igoa González, José Manuel
A2 Linguistica General
K1 Lingüística
K1 Language comprehension
K1 Spanish relative clause
K1 Eye-tracking
K1 Interactive accounts
K1 57 Lingüística
AB [EN] This paper investigates the interaction between lexicosemantic and syntactic information in sentence processing by examining the online comprehension of Spanish relative clauses (RCs) of both restrictive and non-restrictive types. A corpus study shows that, in Spanish, a RC may be introduced by different function words (called relativizers), which differ in lexical frequency, as well as semantic features. Based on these facts, an eye-tracking experiment was conducted with the aim of analyzing whether lexicosemantic information could influence sentence processing at the early stages. The results report an early influence of lexicosemantic information not only when activating a relativizer but also when integrating it within the syntactic structure. Additionally, the semantic role played by each RC type seems to constrain sentence processing at different regions. Our results favor an interactive view of language processing, according to which language comprehension is guided from the early stages by different kinds of linguistic information rather than syntactic information alone.
PB MDPI
SN 2076-3425
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10612/17966
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10612/17966
NO Álvarez-García, E., & Igoa González, J. M. (2023). Lexico-Semantic Influence on Syntactic Processing: An Eye-Tracking Study with Spanish Relative Clauses. Brain Sciences, 13(3). https://doi.org/10.3390/BRAINSCI13030409
DS BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León
RD 30-jun-2024