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| Author(s): |
Leonardo Zeine Mendes de Souza
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2021-04-29 |
| Examining board members: |
Marcello Modesto dos Santos;
Aniela Improta França;
Marcos Fernando Lopes;
Marcus Antonio Rezende Maia
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| Advisor: | Marcello Modesto dos Santos |
| Abstract | |
We evaluate, through a psycholinguistic experiment, the processing of verbal structures regarding three syntactic components: categorial selection (c-selection), number of arguments and lexical selection (which prepositions are selected by the verbs, what we called l-selection). We aim to understand how verb\'s selectional restrictions are fulfilled in real time processing of an acoustic stimulus. Under a tradition of studies that try to evaluate the how informative can be formal linguistics to models of human cognition, we try to delimitate which elements of formal description of human language play a role in sentence comprehension. For a variety of historical reasons, as we will discuss, it is necessary to establish on which syntactic generalizations the human parsing leans so meanings can be conveyed, as an attempt to reapproximate cognitive sciences to formal theories of language. Our experiments\' stimuli are disfluent sentences such as \"I like uhh sympathize that boy\", in which the verbs before and after the repair have different selectional restrictions to be processed: we normally say \"I sympathize with that boy\" and \"I like that boy\". Notice that the verb with its restrictions satisfied, in that case, is the verb to like, not to sympathize, what makes the sentence, strictly speaking, agrammatical. So if the presence of the verb before the disfluency affects the grammaticality judgment of the entire sentence, as we have been observed, we can say that something of verbal structure, in this case, the categorial selection of the verb, lingers in the informant memory regardless of the repair. The intention to, by the disfluency\'s effect, overlay two argument structures in the working memory of informants is to precisely investigate the interaction between them during online processing, as a way of trying to delimitate what is a verbal representation in the human mind. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 18/17386-2 - Language processing: a psycholinguistic approach |
| Grantee: | Leonardo Zeine Mendes de Souza |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |