TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Zeschel, Arne
T1  - Lexical chunking effects in syntactic processing
JF  - Cognitive Linguistics
N2  - 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.
KW  - Funktionale Grammatik
KW  - Disambiguierung
KW  - Kollokation
KW  - Englisch
KW  - Sentence processing
KW  - prefabs
KW  - usage-based model
Y1  - 2008
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-37765
SN  - 1613-3641
SS  - 1613-3641
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/COGL.2008.016
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1515/COGL.2008.016
N1  - Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
VL  - 19
IS  - 3
SP  - 427
EP  - 446
PB  - de Gruyter
CY  - Berlin (u.a.)
ER  -