Processing empty categories: A parallel approach |
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Authors: | Edward Gibson Gregory Hickok Carson T Schütze |
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Institution: | (1) Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience, The Salk Institute, 92037 La Jolla, California;(2) Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139 Cambridge, Massachusetts;(3) Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, E10-034C, MIT, 02139 Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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Abstract: | In many current theories of human sentence processing, the mechanisms and principles proposed to account for data related to processing (1) long-distance dependencies and (2) structural ambiguities, such as garden-path sentences, are independent, despite the fact that deciding whether or not to posit a gap is just a special case of ambiguity resolution. In this paper we demonstrate how the parallel parsing theory proposed by Gibson (1991, in press)—which was developed to account for nongap ambiguity resolution data—also explains a number of gap-positing facts, without additional strategies. In particular, we show how this theory correctly explains filled-object-gap effects and the lack of filled-subject-gap effects in English, as well as certain gap-processing effects in Dutch. |
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