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
- 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.
Author: | Sascha WolferORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-45585 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.15496/publikation-8596 |
Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics |
Publisher: | Universität |
Place of publication: | Tübingen |
Editor: | Johannes Wahle, Marisa Köllner, R. Harald Baayen, Gerhard Jäger, Tineke Baayen-Oudshoorn |
Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2015 |
Date of Publication (online): | 2016/01/15 |
Tag: | corpora; language processing; reading |
GND Keyword: | Kognitivie Linguistik; Korpus <Linguistik>; Sprachverarbeitung <Psycholinguistik> |
Page Number: | 4 |
DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
Open Access?: | ja |
Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
Linguistics-Classification: | Psycholinguistik / Kognitive Linguistik |
Licence (English): | Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International |