@article{978b721b254842778bcf943fbd89d637,
title = "The online processing of noun phrase ellipsis and mechanisms of antecedent retrieval",
abstract = "We investigate whether grammatical information is accessed in processing noun phrase ellipsis (NPE) and other anaphoric constructions. The first experiment used an agreement attraction paradigm to reveal that ungrammatical plural verbs following NPE with an antecedent containing a plural modifier (e.g. Derek{\textquoteright}s key to the boxes … and Mary{\textquoteright}s_ probably *are safe in the drawer) show similar facilitation to non-elided NPs. The second experiment used the same paradigm to examine a coordination construction without anaphoric elements, and the third examined anaphoric one. Agreement attraction was not observed in either experiment, suggesting that processing NPE is different from processing non-anaphoric coordination constructions or anaphoric one. Taken together, the results indicate that the parser is sensitive to grammatical distinctions at the ellipsis site where it prioritises and retrieves the head at the initial stage of processing and retrieves the local noun within the modifier phrase only when it is necessary in parsing NPE.",
keywords = "Noun phrase ellipsis, agreement attraction, antecedent retrieval, sentence processing, syntax",
author = "Nayoun Kim and Laurel Brehm and Masaya Yoshida",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by National Science Foundation [grant number NSF BCS-1323245, NSF DDRI Grant: BCS-1749580]. Funding Information: This work was supported by National Science Foundation [grant number NSF BCS-1323245, NSF DDRI Grant: BCS-1749580]. We are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their invaluable suggestions and comments. We would like to also thank Brian Dillon, Matt Goldrick, Alex Krauska, Dave Kush, Ellen Lau, Akira Omaki, Colin Phillips, Shayne Sloggett, Patrick Sturt, Matt Wagers, Alexis Wellwood, members at Syntax, Semantics and Sentence Processing Lab at Northwestern, and the audiences at the CUNY2016, AMLaP2016, CUNY2017 and the 90th annual meeting of the Linguistics Society of America for their invaluable discussions and comments. This work has been supported in part by NSF DDRI Grant: BCS-1749580. Funding Information: We are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their invaluable suggestions and comments. We would like to also thank Brian Dillon, Matt Goldrick, Alex Krauska, Dave Kush, Ellen Lau, Akira Omaki, Colin Phillips, Shayne Sloggett, Patrick Sturt, Matt Wagers, Alexis Wellwood, members at Syntax, Semantics and Sentence Processing Lab at Northwestern, and the audiences at the CUNY2016, AMLaP2016, CUNY2017 and the 90th annual meeting of the Linguistics Society of America for their invaluable discussions and comments. This work has been supported in part by NSF DDRI Grant: BCS-1749580. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018, {\textcopyright} 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.",
year = "2019",
month = feb,
day = "7",
doi = "10.1080/23273798.2018.1513542",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "34",
pages = "190--213",
journal = "Language, Cognition and Neuroscience",
issn = "2327-3798",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis",
number = "2",
}