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Yaqian Shi; Lei Lei – Reading Research Quarterly, 2024
Most of the previous studies focused on lexical and syntactic features in adapted texts while little attention has been paid to the structural complexity from the perspective of the amount of information. In this study, we intend to examine the differences in structural complexity in adapted texts from the perspective of the amount of information…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Reading Research, Grammar, Syntax
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Kazanina, Nina; Lau, Ellen F.; Lieberman, Moti; Yoshida, Masaya; Phillips, Colin – Journal of Memory and Language, 2007
This article presents three studies that investigate when syntactic constraints become available during the processing of long-distance backwards pronominal dependencies ("backwards anaphora" or "cataphora"). Earlier work demonstrated that in such structures the parser initiates an active search for an antecedent for a pronoun, leading to gender…
Descriptors: Memory, Nouns, Experimental Psychology, Syntax