@article{Zeschel2015,
  author    = {Arne Zeschel},
  title     = {Lexical chunking effects in syntactic processing},
  series   = {Cognitive Linguistics},
  volume    = {19},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {de Gruyter},
  address   = {Berlin (u.a.)},
  issn      = {1613-3641},
  doi       = {10.1515/COGL.2008.016},
  url       = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-37765},
  pages     = {427 -- 446},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Research on syntactic ambiguity resolution in language comprehension has shown that subjects' processing decisions are influenced by a variety of heterogeneous factors such as e.g., syntactic complexity, semantic fit and the discourse frequency of the competing structures. The present paper investigates a further potentially relevant factor in such processes: effects of syntagmatic lexical chunking (or matching to a complex memorized prefab) whose occurrence would be predicted from usage-based assumptions about linguistic categorisation. Focusing on the widely studied so-called DO/SC-ambiguity in which a post-verbal NP is syntactically ambiguous between a direct object and the subject of an embedded clause, potentially biasing collocational chunks of the relevant type are identified in a number of corpus-linguistic pretests and then investigated in a self-paced reading experiment. The results show a significant increase in processing difficulty from a collocationally neutral over a lexically biasing to a strongly biasing condition. This suggests that syntagmatically complex and partially schematic templates of the kind envisioned in usage-based Construction Grammar may impinge on speakers' online processing decisions during sentence comprehension.},
  language  = {en}
}