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Cognitive Processing
Erschienen in: Cognitive Processing 4/2017

26.04.2017 | Short Communication

Testing the online reading effects of emotionality on relative clause attachment

verfasst von: Javier García-Orza, José Manuel Gavilán, Isabel Fraga, Pilar Ferré

Erschienen in: Cognitive Processing | Ausgabe 4/2017

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Abstract

Previous research has shown the impact of the emotional dimension of nouns (i.e., valence and arousal) on the completion of relative clauses (RC) that are preceded by a double antecedent [e.g.,: Someone shot the servant (the first noun phrase, NP1) of the actress (the second noun phrase, NP2) who was on the balcony] (Fraga et al. in Q J Exp Psychol 65:1740–1759, 2012). The present study explored for the first time the role of emotional valence, specifically emotional positive nouns, on RC disambiguation in a self-paced reading experiment. Two types of NP1–NP2 relationships were compared: emotional–neutral vs. neutral–emotional. Results showed NP1 preferences in the emotional–neutral condition, whereas no preferences were found in the neutral–emotional condition. We conclude that during reading, the emotional properties of nouns play a role in disambiguation preferences: RC attachment preferences can be neutralized when emotional factors are manipulated. The results are discussed within the framework of current models of sentence processing and with reference to the controversial differences between comprehension and production.
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1
A higher number of participants in the N–E condition were employed as a way of increasing the power of the by-participant analyses in that condition with respect to the E–N condition. However, as one of our main aims was to use exactly the same materials in each condition, we refused to augment differentially the number of sentences in the N–E condition as a way to increase the power of the by-items analysis. We simply decided to increase the number of sentences in both conditions compared to previous studies (see, for example, Acuña-Fariña et al. 2009).
 
2
Our study might have benefited from the inclusion of a N–N condition; however, we decided to discard this condition as we intended to test the most extreme manipulation: E–N versus N–E, including exactly the same words in each pair of sentences. Under this premise, it is doubtful whether the inclusion of a third condition, N–N, with different words, could be considered equivalent to the E–N and N–E conditions. In any case, the inclusion of the N–N condition might have provided converging evidence in support of this hypothesis
 
3
Our view of topicality as an attractor of RC contrasts with that of Hemforth et al. (2015). In this recent paper, the authors explored relative clause attachment in different languages and claimed that topical nouns do not provide new information, thus reducing the focus and hence the tendency to attract modification.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Testing the online reading effects of emotionality on relative clause attachment
verfasst von
Javier García-Orza
José Manuel Gavilán
Isabel Fraga
Pilar Ferré
Publikationsdatum
26.04.2017
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Cognitive Processing / Ausgabe 4/2017
Print ISSN: 1612-4782
Elektronische ISSN: 1612-4790
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-017-0811-z

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