The Effect of Antecedent Complexity in the Processing of Noun Phrase Ellipsis
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The current study investigated the effect of antecedent complexity on the time-course of antecedent retrieval for Noun Phrase Ellipsis (NPE) with the aim to understand whether the structural content associated with the antecedent have an impact on the online processing of NPE. We found that while NPE structures are more taxing to process in real-time than similar constructions with pronominal anaphora, the complexity of the antecedent yielded no observable reading-time differences nor differences in accuracy. This pattern of results is broadly compatible with both pointer-based and cost-free copying accounts of ellipsis processing (Frazier and Clifton 2001; Martin and McElree 2008, 2009, 2011) but inconsistent with approaches to ellipsis resolution in which the antecedent must be re-built in the ellipsis-site. However, crucially, the absence of an observable antecedent-competition effect (Van Dyke and McElree 2006; Jäger, Engelmann, and Vasishth 2017) is suggestive evidence in favor of the cost-free copying accounts (Frazier and Clifton 2001, 2005). Future work should attempt to expand the range of complexity-based manipulations (in both the degree and the nature of complexity) to ensure that results of this kind are reliable across a range of antecedent structures.
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The current study investigated the effect of antecedent complexity on the time-course of antecedent retrieval for Noun Phrase Ellipsis (NPE) with the aim to understand whether the structural content associated with the antecedent have an impact on the online processing of NPE. We found that while NPE structures are more taxing to process in real-time than similar constructions with pronominal anaphora, the complexity of the antecedent yielded no observable reading-time differences nor differences in accuracy. This pattern of results is broadly compatible with both pointer-based and cost-free copying accounts of ellipsis processing (Frazier and Clifton 2001; Martin and McElree 2008, 2009, 2011) but inconsistent with approaches to ellipsis resolution in which the antecedent must be re-built in the ellipsis-site. However, crucially, the absence of an observable antecedent-competition effect (Van Dyke and McElree 2006; Jäger, Engelmann, and Vasishth 2017) is suggestive evidence in favor of the cost-free copying accounts (Frazier and Clifton 2001, 2005). Future work should attempt to expand the range of complexity-based manipulations (in both the degree and the nature of complexity) to ensure that results of this kind are reliable across a range of antecedent structures.
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