The Role of Surface Order and Surface Deletion in Sentence Perception
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- 1 May 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Vol. 28 (2) , 155-165
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14640747608400548
Abstract
The perceptual complexity of intransitive adverbials, truncated passives and full passives was investigated in two experiments using rapid visual processing tasks. Both forms of passive were found to be more complex than the intransitive adverbials, presumably because of the lack of correspondence of surface and base orders. However, deletion of the logical subject in truncated passives did not increase their complexity relative to full passives.Keywords
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