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11430186

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
Pt 1
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-6-29
pubmed:abstractText
Two studies explored the processing of ambiguous sentences like Bill took chips to the party and Susan to the game, which may be assigned a gapping (Susan took chips) or a nongapping structure (Bill took Susan). The central question was what factors affect the ultimate interpretive preferences for these sentences. In a written questionnaire, sentences with greater parallelism between arguments in the positions of Bill and Susan received more gapping responses, though an overall bias toward the nongapping structure was seen. An auditory comprehension study showed that prosodic parallels between arguments also affected interpretation. In both experiments parallelism played a significant role in determining an interpretation, but the simpler structure, the nongapping structure, was preferred overall.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0023-8309
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
44
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1-26
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
The effects of parallelism and prosody in the processing of gapping structures.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Linguistics, 226 South College, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA. katyc@linguist.umass.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.