What eye and hand movements tell us about expectations towards argument order: An eye- and mouse-tracking study in German.

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    • Source:
      Publisher: North Holland Publishing Country of Publication: Netherlands NLM ID: 0370366 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1873-6297 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00016918 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Acta Psychol (Amst) Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Publication: Amsterdam : North Holland Publishing
      Original Publication: The Hague.
    • Subject Terms:
      Eye Movements*/physiology; Humans ; Adult ; Female ; Male ; Germany ; Eye-Tracking Technology ; Young Adult ; Comprehension/physiology ; Psycholinguistics ; Cues ; Semantics ; Language
    • Abstract:
      Previous research on real-time sentence processing in German has shown that listeners use the morphological marking of accusative case on a sentence-initial noun phrase to not only interpret the current argument as the object and patient, but also to predict a plausible agent. So far, less is known about the use of case marking to predict the semantic role of upcoming arguments after the subject/agent has been encountered. In the present study, we examined the use of case marking for argument interpretation in transitive as well as ditransitive structures. We aimed to control for multiple factors that could have influenced processing in previous studies, including the animacy of arguments, world knowledge, and the perceptibility of the case cue. Our results from eye- and mouse-tracking indicate that the exploitation of the first case cue that enables the interpretation of the unfolding sentence is influenced by (i) the strength of argument order expectation and (ii) the perceptual salience of the case cue. PsycINFO code: 2720 Linguistics & Language & Speech.
      Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
      (Copyright © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
    • Contributed Indexing:
      Keywords: Case marking; Ditransitive verb; Prediction; Reanalysis; Transitive verb; Word order
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20240413 Date Completed: 20240516 Latest Revision: 20240516
    • Publication Date:
      20240517
    • Accession Number:
      10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104241
    • Accession Number:
      38613853