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| Authors | J.J.A. van Berkum, P. Hagoort, C.M. Brown | | Title | The use of referential context and grammatical gender in parsing: A reply to Brysbaert and Mitchell |
| Journal | Journal of Psycholinguistic Research |
| Volume | 29 |
| Year | 2000 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 467-481 |
| ISSN | 0090-6905 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences |
| Institute/dept. | FMG: Psychology Research Institute |
| Keywords | Referential context; Grammatical gender; Syntactic ambiguity; Parsing; ERP |
| Abstract | Based on the results of an event-related brain potentials (ERP) experiment (van Berkum, Brown, & Hagoort. 1999a, b), we have recently argued that discourse-level referential context can be taken into account extremely rapidly by the parser. Moreover, our ERP results indicated that local grammatical gender information, although available within a few hundred milliseconds from word onset, is not always used quickly enough to prevent the parser from considering a discourse-supported, but agreement-violating, syntactic analysis. In a comment on our work, Brysbaert and Mitchell (2000) have raised concerns about the methodology of our ERP experiment and have challenged our interpretation of the results. In this reply, we argue that these concerns are unwarranted and, that, in contrast to our own interpretation, the alternative explanations provided by Brysbaert and Mitchell do not account for the full pattern of ERP results |
| Document type | Article |
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