Аннотация
Which repair strategy does the language system deploy when it gets garden-pathed, and
what can regressive eye movements in reading tell us about reanalysis strategies? Several
influential eye-tracking studies on syntactic reanalysis (Frazier & Rayner, 1982; Meseguer,
Carreiras, & Clifton, 2002; Mitchell, Shen, Green, & Hodgson, 2008) have addressed this
question by examining scanpaths, i.e., sequential patterns of eye fixations. However, in the
absence of a suitable method for analyzing scanpaths, these studies relied on simplified
dependent measures that are arguably ambiguous and hard to interpret. We address the
theoretical question of repair strategy by developing a new method that quantifies
scanpath similarity. Our method reveals several distinct fixation strategies associated with
reanalysis that went undetected in a previously published data set (Meseguer et al., 2002).
One prevalent pattern suggests re-parsing of the sentence, a strategy that has been
discussed in the literature (Frazier & Rayner, 1982); however, readers differed
tremendously in how they orchestrated the various fixation strategies. Our results suggest
that the human parsing system non-deterministically adopts different strategies when
confronted with the disambiguating material in garden-path sentences.
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