@inproceedings{Wolfer2016, author = {Sascha Wolfer}, title = {Reading corpora as an instrument for studying a relevance-based account of language processing. A case study using a reading corpus of German jurisdictional texts}, series = {Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics}, editor = {Johannes Wahle and Marisa K{\"o}llner and R. Harald Baayen and Gerhard J{\"a}ger and Tineke Baayen-Oudshoorn}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t}, address = {T{\"u}bingen}, doi = {10.15496/publikation-8596}, url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-45585}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Reading corpora are text collections that are enriched with processing data. From a corpus linguist’s perspective, they can be seen as an extension of classical linguistic corpora with human language processing behavior. From a psycholinguist’s perspective, reading corpora allow to test psycholinguistic hypotheses on subsets of language and language processing as it is ‘in the wild’ – in contrast to strictly controlled language material in isolated sentences, as used in most psycholinguistic experiments. In this paper, we will investigate a relevance-based account of language processing which states that linguistic structures, that are embedded deeper syntactically, are read faster because readers allocate less attention to these structures.}, language = {en} }