{"pk":26041,"title":"Adaptation to UnexpectedWord-Forms in Highly Predictive Sentential Contexts","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Readers and listeners rely upon previous experience to generate predictions about multiple aspects of an unfolding\nlinguistic signal. Error signals elicited by unexpected input feed forward to higher-level units, serving in the adjustment of\nexpectancies and thus increasing the precision of predictions in that context. When a syntactic ambiguity is resolved with a\ndis-preferred continuation, a garden-path effect occurs, but decreases in magnitude as a function of exposure to the unexpected\nevent. But, can readers adjust lower-level expectations about word forms in contexts that do not permit overt higher-level\nambiguity? We monitored eye-movements as participants read expected or unexpected words in highly-constraining sentences.\nHalf of items contained the predicted word and half contained a plausible but unexpected word. Adaptation—in the form of\ndecreased fixation duration on unexpected words—was observed on first fixation duration but nowhere else, suggesting that\nadaptation occurs at different levels of a multilayered processing system.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/45f5t1k9","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Shaorong","middle_name":"","last_name":"Yan","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Iowa","department":""},{"first_name":"Thomas","middle_name":"","last_name":"Farmer","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Iowa","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26041/galley/15665/download/"}]}