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Pouw, Charlotte (2020)

The Predictive and Restrictive Effect of Dutch Prepositions on Subsequent Material

Bachelor thesis | Taalwetenschap (BA)
This study examines the predictive properties of Dutch prepositions. In a self-paced reading experiment, native speakers of Dutch were presented with verb-final sentences containing five different spatial prepositions, combined with both predictable and unpredictable argument nouns and verbs. Results revealed that the unpredictable nouns and verbs caused processing difficulty, indicating that the parser can use information activated at the preposition to form expectations about upcoming material. These results provide support for the theory that sentence processing is incremental and occurs on the basis of constraint accrual.
predictive sentence processing
prepositions
verb-final
Author
Pouw, Charlotte
Faculty
Faculty of Humanities
Specialisation
Language & Cognition
Supervisors
Pablos Robles, Leticia
ECTS Credits
10
Language
en