Context Type Effects on Attachment Preferences in Disambiguating Turkish Relative Clauses
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2024-02-15Yazar
Aydın, Yasemin
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In psycholinguistics, for understanding the processing and comprehension of sentences,
relative clause structures are widely studied. Because of their complex structures, relative clauses allow researchers to derive significant findings. The goal of this study is to find out whether context type effects are effective in attachment preferences of Turkish
relative clauses constructed using subject participle suffix -(y)An. The current study
manipulates situational context (plausibility) and linguistic context to see if attachment
preference differs in neutral and context-dependent settings. Turkish native speakers
complete an offline questionnaire (N = 100) to assess their preferences for relative clause attachment site and an online self-paced reading task (N = 40) to examine the reaction times in opting for an attachment site. The results reveal that the low attachment
preference (NP1) observed in neutral contexts transforms into a high attachment
preference (NP2) when the NP2-biased situational context (plausibility) and linguistic
context are presented in disambiguating Turkish relative clauses. Both types of contexts
have been demonstrated to be effective in reducing reaction times when compared to
neutral contexts. The findings further suggest that linguistic context is more effective than
situational context.