The thematic hierarchy in sentence comprehension: A study on the interaction between verb class and word order in Spanish

Autores
Gattei, Carolina Andrea; Dickey, Michael W.; Wainselboim, Alejandro Javier; Paris, Luis Alberto
Año de publicación
2015
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inglés
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artículo
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versión publicada
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Linking is the theory that captures the mapping of the semantic roles of lexical arguments to the syntactic functions of the phrases that realize them. At the sentence level, linking allows us to understand “who did what to whom” in an event. In Spanish, linking has been shown to interact with word order, verb class, and case marking. The current study aims to provide the first piece of experimental evidence about the interplay between word order and verb type in Spanish. We achieve this by adopting role and reference grammar and the extended argument dependency model. Two different types of clauses were examined in a self-paced reading task: clauses with object–experiencer psychological verbs and activity verbs. These types of verbs differ in the way that their syntactic and semantic structures are linked, and thus they provide interesting evidence on how information that belongs to the syntax–semantics interface might influence the predictive and integrative processes of sentence comprehension with alternative word orders. Results indicate that in Spanish, comprehension and processing speed is enhanced when the order of the constituents in the sentence mirrors their ranking on a semantic hierarchy that encodes a verb's lexical semantics. Moreover, results show that during online comprehension, predictive mechanisms based on argument hierarchization are used rapidly to inform the processing system. Our findings corroborate already existing cross-linguistic evidence on the issue and are briefly discussed in the light of other sentence-processing models.
Fil: Gattei, Carolina Andrea. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto de Ciencias Humanas, Sociales y Ambientales; Argentina
Fil: Dickey, Michael W.. University of Pittsburgh; Estados Unidos
Fil: Wainselboim, Alejandro Javier. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto de Ciencias Humanas, Sociales y Ambientales; Argentina
Fil: Paris, Luis Alberto. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto de Ciencias Humanas, Sociales y Ambientales; Argentina
Materia
Psychological Verbs
Self-Paced Reading
Sentence Processing
Thematic Hierarchy
Word Order
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spelling The thematic hierarchy in sentence comprehension: A study on the interaction between verb class and word order in SpanishGattei, Carolina AndreaDickey, Michael W.Wainselboim, Alejandro JavierParis, Luis AlbertoPsychological VerbsSelf-Paced ReadingSentence ProcessingThematic HierarchyWord Orderhttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.1https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5Linking is the theory that captures the mapping of the semantic roles of lexical arguments to the syntactic functions of the phrases that realize them. At the sentence level, linking allows us to understand “who did what to whom” in an event. In Spanish, linking has been shown to interact with word order, verb class, and case marking. The current study aims to provide the first piece of experimental evidence about the interplay between word order and verb type in Spanish. We achieve this by adopting role and reference grammar and the extended argument dependency model. Two different types of clauses were examined in a self-paced reading task: clauses with object–experiencer psychological verbs and activity verbs. These types of verbs differ in the way that their syntactic and semantic structures are linked, and thus they provide interesting evidence on how information that belongs to the syntax–semantics interface might influence the predictive and integrative processes of sentence comprehension with alternative word orders. Results indicate that in Spanish, comprehension and processing speed is enhanced when the order of the constituents in the sentence mirrors their ranking on a semantic hierarchy that encodes a verb's lexical semantics. Moreover, results show that during online comprehension, predictive mechanisms based on argument hierarchization are used rapidly to inform the processing system. Our findings corroborate already existing cross-linguistic evidence on the issue and are briefly discussed in the light of other sentence-processing models.Fil: Gattei, Carolina Andrea. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto de Ciencias Humanas, Sociales y Ambientales; ArgentinaFil: Dickey, Michael W.. University of Pittsburgh; Estados UnidosFil: Wainselboim, Alejandro Javier. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto de Ciencias Humanas, Sociales y Ambientales; ArgentinaFil: Paris, Luis Alberto. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto de Ciencias Humanas, Sociales y Ambientales; ArgentinaSAGE Publications2015-10info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/78094Gattei, Carolina Andrea; Dickey, Michael W.; Wainselboim, Alejandro Javier; Paris, Luis Alberto; The thematic hierarchy in sentence comprehension: A study on the interaction between verb class and word order in Spanish; SAGE Publications; Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology; 68; 10; 10-2015; 1981-20071747-02181747-0226CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1080/17470218.2014.1000345info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17470218.2014.1000345info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-09-03T09:47:09Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/78094instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-09-03 09:47:09.876CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The thematic hierarchy in sentence comprehension: A study on the interaction between verb class and word order in Spanish
title The thematic hierarchy in sentence comprehension: A study on the interaction between verb class and word order in Spanish
spellingShingle The thematic hierarchy in sentence comprehension: A study on the interaction between verb class and word order in Spanish
Gattei, Carolina Andrea
Psychological Verbs
Self-Paced Reading
Sentence Processing
Thematic Hierarchy
Word Order
title_short The thematic hierarchy in sentence comprehension: A study on the interaction between verb class and word order in Spanish
title_full The thematic hierarchy in sentence comprehension: A study on the interaction between verb class and word order in Spanish
title_fullStr The thematic hierarchy in sentence comprehension: A study on the interaction between verb class and word order in Spanish
title_full_unstemmed The thematic hierarchy in sentence comprehension: A study on the interaction between verb class and word order in Spanish
title_sort The thematic hierarchy in sentence comprehension: A study on the interaction between verb class and word order in Spanish
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Gattei, Carolina Andrea
Dickey, Michael W.
Wainselboim, Alejandro Javier
Paris, Luis Alberto
author Gattei, Carolina Andrea
author_facet Gattei, Carolina Andrea
Dickey, Michael W.
Wainselboim, Alejandro Javier
Paris, Luis Alberto
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author2 Dickey, Michael W.
Wainselboim, Alejandro Javier
Paris, Luis Alberto
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Psychological Verbs
Self-Paced Reading
Sentence Processing
Thematic Hierarchy
Word Order
topic Psychological Verbs
Self-Paced Reading
Sentence Processing
Thematic Hierarchy
Word Order
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.1
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Linking is the theory that captures the mapping of the semantic roles of lexical arguments to the syntactic functions of the phrases that realize them. At the sentence level, linking allows us to understand “who did what to whom” in an event. In Spanish, linking has been shown to interact with word order, verb class, and case marking. The current study aims to provide the first piece of experimental evidence about the interplay between word order and verb type in Spanish. We achieve this by adopting role and reference grammar and the extended argument dependency model. Two different types of clauses were examined in a self-paced reading task: clauses with object–experiencer psychological verbs and activity verbs. These types of verbs differ in the way that their syntactic and semantic structures are linked, and thus they provide interesting evidence on how information that belongs to the syntax–semantics interface might influence the predictive and integrative processes of sentence comprehension with alternative word orders. Results indicate that in Spanish, comprehension and processing speed is enhanced when the order of the constituents in the sentence mirrors their ranking on a semantic hierarchy that encodes a verb's lexical semantics. Moreover, results show that during online comprehension, predictive mechanisms based on argument hierarchization are used rapidly to inform the processing system. Our findings corroborate already existing cross-linguistic evidence on the issue and are briefly discussed in the light of other sentence-processing models.
Fil: Gattei, Carolina Andrea. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto de Ciencias Humanas, Sociales y Ambientales; Argentina
Fil: Dickey, Michael W.. University of Pittsburgh; Estados Unidos
Fil: Wainselboim, Alejandro Javier. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto de Ciencias Humanas, Sociales y Ambientales; Argentina
Fil: Paris, Luis Alberto. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto de Ciencias Humanas, Sociales y Ambientales; Argentina
description Linking is the theory that captures the mapping of the semantic roles of lexical arguments to the syntactic functions of the phrases that realize them. At the sentence level, linking allows us to understand “who did what to whom” in an event. In Spanish, linking has been shown to interact with word order, verb class, and case marking. The current study aims to provide the first piece of experimental evidence about the interplay between word order and verb type in Spanish. We achieve this by adopting role and reference grammar and the extended argument dependency model. Two different types of clauses were examined in a self-paced reading task: clauses with object–experiencer psychological verbs and activity verbs. These types of verbs differ in the way that their syntactic and semantic structures are linked, and thus they provide interesting evidence on how information that belongs to the syntax–semantics interface might influence the predictive and integrative processes of sentence comprehension with alternative word orders. Results indicate that in Spanish, comprehension and processing speed is enhanced when the order of the constituents in the sentence mirrors their ranking on a semantic hierarchy that encodes a verb's lexical semantics. Moreover, results show that during online comprehension, predictive mechanisms based on argument hierarchization are used rapidly to inform the processing system. Our findings corroborate already existing cross-linguistic evidence on the issue and are briefly discussed in the light of other sentence-processing models.
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