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verb bias: a standalone construct

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Psycholinguistics

probability that a verb occurs with a particular complement structure, which guides readers' resolution of temporary syntactic ambiguity.

In psycholinguistics, verb bias refers to probability that a verb occurs with a particular complement structure, which guides readers' resolution of temporary syntactic ambiguity. This meaning comes from Garnsey (1997) in Journal of Memory and Language.[1]

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ambiguity5 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, five constructs bias6 fields · 8 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs complement4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Garnsey, S. M., Pearlmutter, N. J., Myers, E., & Lotocky, M. A. (1997). The Contributions of Verb Bias and Plausibility to the Comprehension of Temporarily Ambiguous Sentences. Journal of Memory and Language, 37(1), 58-93. https://doi.org/10.1006/jmla.1997.2512

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