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

Skilled readers may misinterpret "you that read wrong" for "you read that wrong": a transposed-word 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 co...

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Published in:Language, Cognition & Neuroscience Vol. 36; no. 5; pp. 668 - 674
Main Authors: Wen, Yun, Mirault, Jonathan, Grainger, Jonathan
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jun2021
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          Wen, Yun
          Mirault, Jonathan
          Grainger, Jonathan
        affil: Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, Aix-Marseille University and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Marseille, France
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      ab: Skilled readers may misinterpret "you that read wrong" for "you read that wrong": a transposed-word 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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