How Animacy and Verbal Information Influence V2 Sentence Processing: Evidence from Eye Movements

How Animacy and Verbal Information Influence V2 Sentence Processing: Evidence from Eye Movements

There exists a clear association between animacy and the grammatical function of transitive subject. The grammar of some languages require the transitive subject to be high in animacy, or at least higher than the object. A similar animacy preference has been observed in processing studies in languag...

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Main Authors: de Swart Peter, van Bergen Geertje
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2019-12-01
Series:Open Linguistics
Subjects:
verb-initial sentences
predictive processing
visual world
dutch
lexical information
selectional restrictions
argument structure
grammar-performance connection
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0035

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https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0035

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