The Influence of Syntactic Expectations on Reading Comprehension Is Malleable and Strategic: An Eye-Tracking Study of English Dative Alternation.
Language processing is incremental and inherently predictive. Against this theoretic backdrop, we investigated the role of upcoming structural information in the comprehension of the English dative alternation. The use of eye-tracking enabled us to examine both the time course and locus of the effec...
| Published in: | Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Expérimentale Vol. 73; no. 3; pp. 179 - 193 |
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