Multitasking Events in English: Cross-task Conceptual Replications and Re-evaluations

maze task
sprt
event processing
event structure
replication
open science
English
presentation
poster
Author

Lisa Levinson, Rohan Raju, Lucy Yu-Chuan Chiang, Sid Bhushan

Published

March 27, 2025

Poster presented at HSP 2025 (38th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 27-29, 2025.)

What role do lexical representations of event structure play in the temporal dynamics of sentence processing beyond relative event-type probabilities, and to what extent can we detect these effects in behavioral reading and reaction times? Do we find complexity costs for analytically more complex representations, or only for special cases such as coercion?

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