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Bartek, Brian; Lewis, Richard L.; Vasishth, Shravan; Smith, Mason R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
Many comprehension theories assert that increasing the distance between elements participating in a linguistic relation (e.g., a verb and a noun phrase argument) increases the difficulty of establishing that relation during on-line comprehension. Such "locality effects" are expected to increase reading times and are thought to reveal properties…
Descriptors: Evidence, Sentences, Verbs, Eye Movements