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Date: 2012-01-01 00:00:00
Title: The role of clefting, word order and given-new ordering in sentence comprehension: Evidence from Hindi
Description: Two Hindi eyetracking studies show that clefting a noun results in greater processing difficulty initially, due to the extra processing steps involved in encoding a clefted noun (e.g., for computing the exhaustiveness interpreta- tion). However, this extra difficulty in encoding a clefted noun results in a processing advantage when the clefted noun needs to be retrieved later on in the sentence - the clefted noun is retrieved faster in subsequent processing compared to its non-clefted counterpart. We also show that given-new ordering yields a processing advantage over new-given order, but this is only seen after the whole sentence is processed, i.e., it may be a late effect that occurs after syntactic processing is completed. Finally, following up on work on German by Hornig et al. (2005), we present evidence that non-canonical order can be processed more easily than canonical order given appropriate context.   Journal of South Asian Linguistics  
Author: Shravan Vasishth and Rukshin Shaher and Naryanan Srinivasan
Maintainer: Shravan Vasishth
Authors@R: c(person(given ="Shravan", family = "Vasishth", role = c("aut", "cre")), person(given ="Rukshin", family = "Shaher", role = c("aut")), person(given ="Naryanan", family = "Srinivasan", role = c("aut")))
Package: VasishthShaherSrinivasan2012
Version: 1.0
License: CC BY-NC (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/de/)
